Scientists who invented the virginal ring that prevents women from contracting HIV have expressed happiness as their research on the ring has yielded results as expected with the ring able to reduce 31% of new HIV infections among women according to the research findings. Releasing the results, Dr. Clemensia Nakabiito, a senior consultant obstetrician and gynecologist who is also […]
In a bid to extend easy access to health information to adolescents in the country, government, through the health ministry, is soon launching a new health information App. Speaking to the reproductive health programme officer in the ministry Olivia Kikyonkyo,, on the new App, she explains that they intend to install it on smart phones to […]
Government has revealed plans to strengthen and extend cancer treatment nearer to the communities with plans to set up regional cancer treatment centers across all the country’s major regions. Addressing journalists ahead of the global cancer day slated for Thursday this week in Tororo , the director community clinical services, Dr. Anthony Mbonye states that the regional […]
Medics working with Haemophilia Foundation Uganda (HFU) want government to venture into ensuring that baby screening of blood disorders is done in health facilities so as to prevent possible complications. Addressing journalists in Kampala, the medics working with Haemophilia Foundation Uganda (HFU) expressed concern that currently, 98 percent of patients with bleeding disorders in the country […]
Positive men union in Uganda are strongly concerned with the increasing idle funds laying on various accounts of many local government across the country and not fully extending services to the communities. According to the national coordinator Richard, Gavi and Global Fund monies are sent to each and every district to service activities of people living with HIV/AIDS and its […]
The new Uganda-UNICEF country programme 2016-2020, will have a special focus on Northern, North-East and Western Uganda, which have the lowest social-economic indicators in the country. Particular emphasis will be on early childhood development and empowerment of adolescent girls. According to Professor Tarsis Kabwegyere, Minister for General Duties in the Office of the Prime Minister, […]
Police has transferred to the Director of public prosecutions six case files of suspects alleged to be trafficking Ugandan girls to Saudi Arabia. Currently police is holding Halima Abdullah who is said to be running supreme security agency, one of the companies that export labor. The police spokesperson Fred Enanga said that this group has been […]
Doctors in connivance with some leaders in Tororo Hospital have stolen Hepatitis B Vaccines meant for the immunization of the ongoing mass immunization of adults against the killer disease. According to the ongoing investigations by the Health Monitoring unit the Hepatitis B Vaccines were stolen from Tororo hospital by a string of High profile staff at the hospital and […]
Civil Society coalition on Oil and Gas (CSCO) is asking government to halt the issuing of oil exploration licenses to all companies that have interest in the Virunga National Park for fear of damaging the Eco system in the area. Virunga , shared by both Uganda and Dr. Congo is one of the UNESCO world heritage […]
The Water and environment minister, Ephraim Kamuntu, is calling for increased funding into the water sector so as to increase access and availability of the resource among the communities across the country since it’s a necessity to human lives. Speaking at a national dialogue on fresh water and sustainable development where stakeholders in the water and […]