Uganda has received a consignment of more than 1.6 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine thanks to a donation by the United States government. This is the second consignment of COVID-19 vaccines that the Biden administration has sent to Uganda. The first, which arrived on September 6, comprised 647,080 doses of Moderna, bringing to…
The Ministry of Health says the 1 ,674,270 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine it has received from the US government will be administered only within Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono. Dr. Alfred Driwale, the Program Manager of Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization says the Pfizer vaccine doses will be limited to the vaccination centres…
Global Pharmaceutical Company Pfizer announced on Monday that their COVID-19 vaccine is safe for children aged between five and eleven. According to the results of a study released on Monday, the Company and their German partner BioNTech say that they gave children aged five to 11 years, a two-dose regimen of 10 μg (micrograms) which…
The Kalungu district health department is battling with unsafe abortions due to a persistent increase in teenage pregnancies. Dr Daniel Ssentamu, the Kalungu District Health Officer says that their Reproductive Healthcare status report indicates that pregnancies by underage girls below 19 years are contributing an average of 18% of overall statistics of expecting mothers who…
If there are people who have everlasting memories about this Covid-19, then 29-year-old, youthful Zack Kabagambe is one of them. When president, Yoweri Museveni, announced the first lockdown intended to control the spread of Covid19, Kabagambe never thought he would be one of the first victims of security brutality enforcing the orders. As you read this, Kabagambe is…
More than 1,298 teachers in Bunyangabu District have received their first jab for COVID-19. The district received 3,079 doses of AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines targeting more than 5,000 people. According to information from the health department of the district another 4,009 people under the vulnerable person’s category have also got their first dose and 1,958…
More than 1,298 teachers in Bunyangabu District have received their first jab for COVID-19. The district received 3,079 doses of AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines targeting more than 5,000 people. According to information from the health department of the district another 4,009 people under the vulnerable person’s category have also got their first dose and 1,958…
The UN children’s agency is closing down its social media channels for 18 hours to send one message to the world: #ReopenSchools for in-person learning as soon as possible. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is joining UNICEF, together with the World Bank, the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission Humanitarian Aid operation, the LEGO Foundation and the WEF…
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is more effective in protecting against hospitalisation compared to Pfizer and Johnson&Johnson, according to findings of a study released by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The study was carried out between March and August this year and involved more than 3600 hospitalised COVID-19 patients at 21 hospitals located…
The Ministry of Health is planning to reduce the age at which girls get the Human Papilloma Vaccines which protects against cervical cancer. At the moment, the vaccine is given to females aged nine years of age. However, the health ministry wants to start giving the vaccine to five-year-olds. This is part of a new…
A total of 157 volunteers have so far enrolled in a study happening in Masaka, one of the sites that have been selected to assess effectiveness of a vaccine against HIV in Africa. The study dubbed PrEPVACC is also happening in Mbeya and Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, Maputo in Mozambique and in Durban South Africa, but…
Several teenage mothers in Luwero district are appealing for skills training to enable them to look after themselves and their children. According to Luwero District Health Report, at least 16,163 girls below the age of 19 years got pregnant in the 2020/21 financial year. Of these, 442 girls are below 15 years of age. Luwero,…
Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has tasked a ten-member select committee comprising ten officials from the National Planning Authority-NPA, Uganda Civil Aviation Authority-UCAA, security agencies and the ministries of health and tourism to address loopholes in the COVID-19 testing procedures at Entebbe International Airport. Nabbanja, who heads the Inter-ministerial Committee on Uganda’s COVID-19 response named the…
The Children’s Surgical Hospital in Entebbe municipality, the first of its kind in Uganda, has started bearing fruits less than five months since it opened. The 72 bed hospital is located a few metres from the Special Forces Command-SFC Barracks in Lunyo village, Entebbe Municipality. Built at a cost of 117…
The Ministry of Health has begun carrying out surveillance around communities neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo after an outbreak of meningitis in the North-Eastern Tshopo Province where 129 lives have been lost. Health Minister Dr Ruth Aceng told URN in an interview that they are moving fast to deploy adequate surveillance teams to ensure…
