The Kitgum District COVID 19 Taskforce has embarked on tracing migratory farming communities to test and vaccinate against covid-19. The farming communities always migrate into the wilderness of Tim Palukok and Tim Lipan hunting grounds that stretches into parts of the Sub Counties of Namukora and Orom with the South Sudan borders. The migratory farmers…
Persons vaccinated using the the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine might need to get a booster dose so as to get 100 percent protection against severe disease according to findings from Phase III trials. The trials that were carried out by the manufacturers of the vaccine show that the single-dose vaccine provides strong and long…
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…
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…
Health workers that are not yet vaccinated have made the choice not to get COVID-19 jabs, and the government does not have any special arrangement for their vaccination. As of today, according to Ministry of Health data, only 47,165 out of an estimated 150,000 health workers have been fully vaccinated countrywide despite them being the…
By Flavia Nassaka Private health providers want the Ministry of Health to purchase COVID-19 vaccines from manufacturers on their behalf, Grace Ssali Kiwanuka, the Executive Director Uganda Healthcare Federation (UHF) said in an interview noting that they have also asked the ministry to allow them store the vaccines at the National Medical Stores (NMS) once…
1,453 health workers out of the 5,413 in the Acholi Sub Region have shunned taking the vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Health workers are a priority category for COVID-19 vaccinations by the World Health Organisation and are on the list in Uganda. The health workers are operating in various health facilities in the…
Kampala resident’s willingness to have a coronavirus vaccine is increasing, according to a new report on attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines. A COVID-19 vaccine is the key to beating the virus that has so far killed close to 2,000 Ugandans. A short survey conducted in Kampala, among 610 residents by the Twaweza’s Sauti Wanaichi team which…
The U.S. Embassy in Uganda developed a “COVID-19 Resource Toolkit” in collaboration with Uganda’s Ministry of Health and other partners in order to expand access to key COVID-19 information and resources across Ugandan society. The toolkit includes links to videos, public service announcements in various languages, posters, and other information on COVID-19 signs and…
Up to 2,000 delegates from all over the world took part in a live event held this week alongside the UN General Assembly 2020, which called on governments, donors, and other key actors in global development to demonstrate greater accountability for supporting and improving women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) and rights during the COVID-19…