Health Ministry Seeks Shs40bn to Buy 108 Ambulances
The Ministry of Health is seeking Shs40 billion to procure 108 ambulances for constituencies that have not yet received emergency vehicles, as government moves to strengthen emergency response and...
HIV Patients Raise Alarm Over Expired ARVs in Health Facilities
People Living with HIV/AIDS are raising concerns after receiving antiretroviral medicines that had allegedly expired before they were dispensed by health facilities.
Ms Barbara Kemigisa, an HIV activist and mother...
Uganda Confirms Outbreak of Marburg Case in Kyegegwa
The single Marburg case was detected in Kyegegwa district in the west of Uganda, in a 1-1/2-year-old child who had died.
Public concern is rising after health officials sounded an...
Gov’t to get 19,200 more doses of lenacapavir
The Ministry of Health has announced that Uganda will receive an additional 19,200 doses of lenacapavir, a long-acting injectable medicine used to prevent HIV infection, as demand for the...
Ministry of Health launches Injectable HIV Prevention Drug in Masaka
The Ministry of Health efforts to curb the spread of HIV have received a significant boost following the rollout of a new long-acting injectable drug designed to prevent HIV...
World Sickle Cell Day: Gov’t urges Ugandans to know their sickle cell status before marriage
The Ministry of Health has renewed its appeal for stronger national efforts to combat sickle cell disease, warning that thousands of Ugandan children continue to lose their lives to...
EBOLA: Five patients allowed to leave hospital in DRC
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are celebrating after five patients, who had Ebola and now recovered, were allowed to leave hospital.
The current outbreak is suspected to...
Canada declares 90 day ban on Uganda
Canada has announced sweeping temporary border and immigration restrictions affecting travellers and residents from Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and South Sudan over concerns about the Ebola...
MoH confirms two new Ebola Cases, bringing the Total to seveni
Uganda's Ministry of Health has confirmed two additional cases of Ebola Virus Disease, bringing the nation's total confirmed infections to seven. The new cases include a driver who transported...
Uganda records three new Ebola cases
The Ministry of Health has confirmed three new Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to five.
In a statement dated Saturday, ...
Ebola Alert: Over 100 Isolated After Imported Ebola Case Linked to DR Congo
More than 100 people have been isolated and are under monitoring after coming into contact with an imported Ebola case involving a Congolese man who died in the country...
Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital Raises Alarm Over Rising Cases of Abandoned Patients
For three weeks, Joseph Tumwebaze has lain in a hospital bed at Mbarara regional referral hospital, his broken leg immobilised and his body still recovering from a violent attack.
He...
