Health

𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄 214 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐎𝐎𝐍 EDITION 𝐅𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐘 20, 2023 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 🇺🇬 84 % of children below 5 years in Kampala  take up Polio vaccination as exercise comes to an end 📌The Ministry of Health has announced that a national polio vaccination campaign that has been ongoing comes to an end. The exercise winds up in Kampala where the latest health ministry figures reveal that about 84 percent of children below five years in the city have been vaccinated. According to Alfred Driwale, the programme manager of...

The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has kicked off the second round of the polio vaccination campaign. The exercise is being conducted in all five KCCA divisions, including central, Kawempe, Makindye, Nakawa, and Rubaga. "This is the second round we are vaccinating in response to the outbreak that was discovered here in 2021," Dr. Denis Buluma, the head of health services in Rubaga, said. According to Dr. Sarah Zalwango, the acting deputy director of medical services, they are targeting over 600,000 children...

Equatorial Guinea announced its first ever outbreak of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement Monday. The central African nation of about 1.6 million people reported nine deaths and 16 more suspected cases after a sample sent to a laboratory in Senegal on February 7 came back positive. Health minister Mitoha Ondo'o Ayekaba told reporters that a health alert had been declared in Kie-Ntem province and the neighbouring district...

𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄 209 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐄𝐁𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐘 15, 2023 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 🇺🇬 Government clears use of injection as one of the measures to prevent HIV infection  📌Government has cleared the use of an injectable ARV that will only need to be taken once every two months rather than taking ARVs on a daily basis. The Director General Uganda Aids Commission, Dr. Nelson Musoba said about 200 patients in the East African countries began a trial of the injection as approved by World Health Organization and results came...

Uganda is among 40 countries that is benefiting from US$ 867Million funding from the Global Fund to fund activities related to Covid 19 response.  According to a statement released by Global Fund on February 14th, since December 2022, the Global Fund has awarded US$547 million in additional funding to 40 countries through its Covid 19 response mechanism (C19RM) and has now initiated the process to award a further US$320 million, making a total of approximately US$867 million. The grants which are coming when infection transmission in many countries has...

The government has embarked on distributing medicines in all public hospitals after months of drug stock out in some public health facilities in different parts of the country. Primer Robinah Nabbanja made this revelation during the plenary sitting on 2nd Tuesday 2023. “The distribution of drugs in health facilities has commenced and our target is that all public hospitals stock essential medicines,” Nabbanja said. She also added that an inter-ministerial committee has been set up to address the issues of supplies...