The private sector under the Malaria free Uganda council has rolled out a campaign dumped “Zero Malaria Business Leadership Initiative” aimed at ending Malaria by 2030. The campaign brings together private businesses and leaders to fight Malaria in conjunction with the Ministry of Health. Ken Mugisha, the Chairperson of Malaria free Uganda, says that their…
Two of the four COVID-19 vaccines currently developed in Uganda are reaching the animal trial phase, while one other is one stage away. The vaccines manufactured under the Presidential Scientific Initiative on Epidemics (PRESIDE), an initiative of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni are using different technologies; One is using the ChAdOx1 also known as the Adenovirus-vectored technology, …
Despite being the most ill-planned exercise executed by the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization (UNEPI), the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination is the most expensive campaign carried out in the last ten years, according to officials. In the past four years, Uganda has carried out at least two mass vaccination campaigns including the Measles/Rubella and Polio…
Uganda registered an increase in Female Genital Mutilation cases during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to reports from the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. FGM is the deliberate cutting or injuring of genitals to change their appearance often for religious or cultural purposes. In Uganda, FGM is practiced in the districts of Bukwo, Kapchorwa,…
Mandatory testing for all incoming passengers is expected to commence this weekend at Entebbe International Airport. This after the Inter-ministerial committee, chaired by the Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja, inspected the airport on Thursday evening to assess readiness to start the exercise. Julius Mucunguzi, the spokesperson of the Office of the Prime Minister-OPM, says the exercise will…
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has opened four additional vaccination centres in the Kampala Metropolitan area as the government bids to reach more people. The four vaccines sites include City Square, Old Taxi Park, Namboole Stadium and Mayor’s Garden in Entebbe. Dr Immaculate Ampaire, the Assistant Manager of the Uganda National Expanded Program on…
Uganda has received 196,800 doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine which were bought by the government. This is the first batch of the nine million doses of the single-shot vaccines. The vaccines were delivered aboard Brussels Airlines, which torched down at Entebbe International Airport on Thursday night. The Health Ministry Permanent Secretary,…
Some People Living with HIV/AIDS in Bududa district are selling life-prolonging Anti-Retroviral drugs (ARVs) to cattle keepers, especially those involved in fattening bulls. Bududa district has over 500 people enrolled on ARVs, which they receive after every four months. Esther Wambewo, one of the People Living With HIV, says that she is forced to sell some…
Green cottage clinic in Mukono municipality is under the spotlight for issuing fake COVID-19 test certificates especially to people travelling abroad. Much as the clinic isn’t among those accredited to conduct COVID-19 tests, it issues PCR test results. Trouble for Green cottage clinic started when they issued a COVID-19 negative certificate to Esther Nambowa, 28,…
At least 26 cases of grade two leprosy disease have been reported in the Acholi Sub Region. Statistics from the Acholi Sub Regional Leprosy coordinator, Jimmy Komakech show that 26 new cases of severe leprosy have been reported with five cases reported in Gulu district. Kitgum, Lamwo and Nwoya have four cases each. The other…