According to statistics from ministry of health, in Uganda, malaria has historically been a very serious health problem and currently poses the most significant threat to the health of the population. It accounts for 25-40% of all outpatients’ visits at health facilities, 20% of hospital admissions and 15% of in-patients deaths and has a case-fatality […]
A mixture of hope and gloom hangs as thousands of HIV/AIDS patients receive and others await free antiretroviral drugs in different parts of Uganda. Gertrude Akol, 43, who started ARV treatment in 2007, says she owes all her life to ARVs, because she found out her HIV status late. “When my husband died in 2005, […]
After years, in fact decades of operations against HIV/AIDS, where have we reached and what have we learned in efforts to prevent infection and impacts of HIV/AIDS on our communities? Gerald Businge writes that about the successes and challenges in Uganda and the need for fresh thinking in face of a growing HIV positive population […]
Doctors in Uganda are warning that pneumonia is on increase in children due to uncompleted immunization courses among other predisposing factors. Dr. Sabrina Etaka the Chairperson of doctors specialized in children related diseases says that the disease is increasing because some children born to mothers with HIV/AIDS receive prevention of mother to child transmission of […]
Thirteen people have been confirmed dead from hepatitis “B” in Moyo district and 19 other infected under the medical care since the epidemic broke out in the district in July last year. The district disease surveillance officer Simon Muda says the most affected areas are Mayo, Metu, Dufile, Imala and Idula surrounding the river Nile […]
The International Federation’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) has announced funding to the Uganda Red Cross Society to deliver immediate assistance to some 2,135,700 beneficiaries. The DREF is a vital part of the International Federation’s disaster response system and increases the ability of national societies to respond to disasters. The orgnaisation in a statement announced […]
The Ministry of health has appealed to all Ugandans to sleep under insecticide treated mosquito nets to avoid contracting yellow fever which has already killed more than 48 people in several districts of northern Uganda. The ministry in a press statement says people should destroy breeding grounds for mosquitoes like stagnant water and bushes around […]
The In-Charge of Kamuli District main Hospital Maternity Ward Sister Eunice Mbago has expressed concern over the increased unsafe abortions in the district. Mbago says that in the first quarter of this year, 61 young women were admitted at the Hospital with abortion complications followed by 12 more cases in the third quarter of the […]
The Parliamentary Committee on HIV/AIDS and Related Matters has appealed to the government to allocate more funding to HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment in order to enable the country increase its gains against the pandemic. In a statement signed by the Chairperson of the Committee, Beatrice Rwakimari, the MPs said more funds are needed to […]
Men seeking to be circumcised have overwhelmed the free Medical Circumcision clinic in Gulu. The clinic that opened yesterday at Gulu hospital has attracted several males ranging from few months old babies to adult males over forty years old. Ismail Aziz, one of the men who turned up to be circumcised says that he has […]