Currently, more than 100,000 people (12,500 households) are at a risk of landslides in the Mt. Elgon and Rwenzori sub-regions. As stated above, upto 20,000 of them are likely to be displaced between November 2015 and February 2016. According to a World Meteorological Organization report Uganda and other East African Countries would experience an El […]
H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is calling on all Ugandans to always wash their hands after visiting toilets and before eating to avoid catching diseases which have led to loss of many lives. While delivering the president’s speech at the national hand washing ceremonies yesterday in Luwero district, the vice president of Uganda, Hon. Edward Kiwanuka […]
Female cancer survivors in the country are asking men to always be by their side during times of suffering and treating the disease to make them feel support by their loved ones. Speaking to Josephine Bamuwambye one of the cancer survivors, she revealed that many male spouses drop their wives when they discover that they are […]
A section of Ugandans have embarked on a massive campaign that is geared towards compelling government through parliament to make adjustments in the current laws governing safe abortion, with the campaign seeing the activists collecting over a million signatures to be used to petition the coming parliament to work on their call. According to the […]
The Ministry of Health says by end of next year, it would have tested about 800,000 Ugandans with HIV using the new technology that tells the amount of the virus one has in their bodies. The new technology known as Viral load is different from the CD4 count tests that have usually been carried out which could only […]
A study published September 8th, 2015 in JAMA – Journal of the American Medical Association, has established that daily iron supplementation during pregnancy did not result in an increased risk of malaria. The study done in Kenya noted that Anemia in pregnancy is a moderate or severe health problem in more than 80 percent of […]
Experts in nutrition reveal that the country is still faced with a big burden of maternal nutrition which is thought to be under looked by the population and government. According to the nutrition expert, Brenda Namugumya, 12% of women in Uganda are malnourished with 23% (3/10) pregnant women are anaemic which causes huge problem at times of giving birth. Statistics […]
The Ministry of health said there is a malaria outbreak in 10 districts of northern Uganda that has killed a total of 162 people in the last three months. The Director General of health services, Ruth Aceng, says 22, 873 cases have been recorded in Lamwo, Gulu, Kitgum, Oyam and Agago among others. Addressing the […]
The Ministry of health has received transport equipment to help in elimination of neglected tropical diseases in the country. The state Minister for health in charge of general duties, Dr Chris Baryomunsi, made the announcement during a function where his ministry received a donation of 16 motorcycles and 7 vehicles worth 1 billion shillings from donors […]
The disaster preparedness and Refugee stores have run out of food for relief food. This has been revealed by the Minister of disaster preparedness and Refugees, Engineer Hilary Onek, while appearing before the Human Rights committee of parliament chaired by woman MP for Mitoma district. Onek said that for the last five months disaster preparedness stores […]