Following a serious outbreak of typhoid in Kampala and neighboring districts that claimed over 20 lives, the Ministry of Health has come out to declare Uganda typhoid free. The outbreak had prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a travel notice for those coming to Uganda recommending that travelers get typhoid vaccine […]
The Ministry of Health has launched a new electronic tool that will be used by both the ministry and Non Government Organizations to track on the resources that are allocated to maternal health programs across the country. The electronic tool is expected to act as a new avenue to avert duplication of programs and accelerate […]
Ministry of Health seeks for Ushs 450 billion to carry out an integrated house to house testing for HIV and Aids, Malaria and hepatitis B in the whole Country to establish how many people have these sicknesses. The campaign will target those people aged 14 years and above as well as the Children at risk […]
Medical workers under their umbrella body, Uganda medical workers union have launched a massive campaign geared at saving the lives of expectant mothers and the live of new borns by reminding government to increase their salaries within 90 days before they resort to worse steps. Addressing a joint press conference today at their offices in […]
Police have arrested an accountant for the alleged fraudulent transfer of 1.2billion shillings from the ministry of health account to an unknown account in ABC Capital Bank purported to belong to the National Medical Stores. Police alleges that, Alex Gumisiriza an accountant attached to the Global Fund Programme forged paper work on how the funds […]
As president Museveni’s (Kintu government) is busy buying luxury cars for ministers, NRM cadres and MPs using taxpayers money, Ugandans in northern Uganda are left to die in misery. Over the last past two months, there have been heated disagreements over the cause and treatment of nodding syndrome which affects young children between […]
The Executive Director of the United States of America and President Barack Obama’s Global Health Initiative chief, Lois Quam has arrived in Uganda on Monday. Lois Quam is in Uganda for a one week visit to support Uganda’s Ministry of Health’s effort to reduce maternal deaths by at least 50% in four western districts of […]
A new report from the ministry of health has indicated that HIV/AIDS prevalence is on the increases among the people between 15-49 years of age. The report that was launched by the Uganda AIDS Commissions in Kampala shows that the increasing infections is due to the men who do not like to use protective measures […]
There is a grand programme by the ministry of health to evaluate health centres and clinics run by the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces across the country with the purpose of uplifting them to hospital status. The Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Aronda Nyakairima has told journalists that health centres run by the army will be […]
After Education Minister, Jessica Alupo walked down the aisle, it looks another minister is about to do so. Health minister, Christine Andoa is now on the menu to make a wedding in a period less than a year since Alupo made hers. Christine Andoa we are told she is preparing to walk down the aisle […]