Members of Parlaiment together with Civil Society organisations are requesting Government to address the need for family planning by increasing on financing and sensitisation which they said will help to improve on reproductive health programmes in the Country. Addressing a joint press conference at Parliament, Reproductive Health Uganda, UKAID, Network of African Women Ministers Parliamentarians […]
HIV/AIDS activists have expressed concern over the inadequate Anti Retroviral drugs in the country The research carried out by the Uganda network of AIDS Services Organizations indicate that over 3000 people are need of Antiviral drugs but cannot access them. The executive director of the Uganda network of AIDS Services Organizations Bharam Namanya says […]
Parliament has approved a motion for the creation of a special forum on malaria, the leading single killer disease in Uganda. The motion, presented by Jinja West MP, Moses Balyeku, seeks for the establishment of the forum to tackle issues to do with malaria in the country. Balyeku noted that malaria is one of the […]
Following the out break of a strange disease which has claimed 15 lives in the eastern district of Namutumba, the health ministry has confirmed sending a team of technical personnel to the district that will pitch camp in the area to offer health services to the communities affected. According to the state minister for health, Dr. Richard Nduhura, the […]
President Yoweri Museveni has revealed that Uganda is already working on a biological method to kill mosquito larvae and is also experimenting with scientifically tested local herbs to kill the mosquito. The President is however calling for more researchers to work on a scientific method to destroy mosquito larvae as one of the best methods […]
Mukono Municipality MP Betty Nambooze has expressed the urgent need for extension of reproductive health services in Mukono district to reduce high rate of death during pregnancy and abortion. Nambooze has said early pregnancy, strictness at workplaces; inadequate modern facilities and abandonment of caring for pregnant mothers have led to death during birth. She was […]
Mulago hospital is to wave medical fees to assist one of the children who were struck by lightning in Kiryandongo district on Tuesday. 15 year old Fred Baguma lies in the hospital unconscious and is feared to have suffered brain damage. The nursing team in charge of three (3) B emergency surgical wards Margret Tagina […]
Ministry of Health has confirmed that the country has a total of 50,000 children infected with the HIV, the virus with that causes AIDS. The ministry in a report revealed that 90% of the children get the infection from their mothers during child birth. The ministry is concerned that the number of HIV infections among children is […]
Ministry of health is advising all expectant mothers to always go for antenatal care if they are to reduce chances of their new bones catching disease. According to the ministry’s head of communications, Dr. Paul Kagwa, many new born babies are produced with complications as a result of their mothers not going for antenatal care. Kagwa mentions […]
Children living with HIV/Aids have petitioned the minister of health Dr. Christine Ondoa to give priority to prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child. Over 20 children from Baylor Uganda presented a petitioned today also demanding government to provide enough antiretroviral drugs for pregnant mothers in all hospitals of Uganda. The children say that they […]