THE National Drug Authority (NDA) has banned the establishment of new drug shops in Kampala, the body's head of drug inspection announced on Thursday.
AT LEAST 15,496 people in Rukungiri are HIV-positive, the district director of health services, Dr. Zepher Karyabakabo, has revealed.
Senior special assistant to the President on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Hajia Amina Ibrahim has attributed lack of manpower, skill and finance as the major bottlenecks in eradicating the menace of under five mortality rate in the country.
Have you ever imagined yourself asleep behind your steering as you cruised over five poles without knowing when you passed those landmarks on that familiar terrain that you had always followed for a long time?
When the Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (HIV) developed into fully blown Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and was discovered at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Teaching Hospital, Zaria, in 1986, little did people know that it would spread to other parts of the country.
The need to offer assistance to the orphans and the less-privileged in the society in order not to increase the crime rate of the country has been emphasised by Multishield Limited, a health maintenance organisation (HMO).
Wife of Abia State Governor, Mrs Mercy Odochi Orji, has kicked-off a state wide cancer awareness and prevention campaign, declaring that "a cancer free society should be the dream of all."
I’ve served my country around the world as a career diplomat for 33 years now. I’ve seen firsthand what successful cooperation among governments and peoples can accomplish in the pursuit of shared goals. Yet, one of the strongest examples of results-focused partnerships underway is what I am now witnessing unfold in the Kingdom of Lesotho in southern Africa to improve life-saving ...
OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, more than 15,000 delegates representing governments, UN agencies, non-governmental organisations and civil society will be gathering in Copenhagen to deliver a political deal on reducing carbon emissions and halting the prospect of climate change globally.
AIDS DEATHS IN KENYA HAVE fallen by 29 per cent since 2002 -- thanks to the use of anti-retrovirals and a concerted awareness campaign.
Married women who consent to circumcision are undermining the fight against female genital mutilation.
Five hospitals in Abia, Rivers, Delta, Edo and Bayelsa states are providing high quality HIV/AIDS services under the Niger Delta AIDS Response (NiDAR) project initiated by Shell Petroleum Develop-ment Company (SPDC).
LEAPFROG Investments, a micro insurance investment fund, said last week that it would invest R50m in AllLife, the South African insurer serving people living with HIV and diabetes.
All HIV-positive east Africans could soon access free anti-retroviral treatment even as they move freely from country to country, if a new proposed law comes into effect.
Although he was born with the virus, it was only 15 years after his birth that Robert* and his family discovered he was HIV-positive.
With 45 percent of Liberian children under age five chronically or acutely malnourished, experts say nutrition is a burning health problem, but NGOs feel the Ministry of Health is not as worried as it should be, and lacks the capacity to provide leadership in bringing about solutions.
Most communities have individuals or groups whose exceptional approaches to problems help them find better solutions than their peers, say behavior change experts, who call such individuals 'positive deviants'.
Newborn babies in South Africa will now be treated for HIV, regardless of their CD4 count. President Jacob Zuma announced several new measures which focus on expanding the country's anti-retroviral (ARV) programme, especially in terms of mother-to-child-transmission, and for those with both TB and HIV.
Although tobacco use is not as prevalent in Africa as it is in other regions, that will change unless immediate action is taken, the United Nations health agency warned today as it announced a new tobacco control effort for the continent.
THE youth state minister, Jessica Alupo, has said HIV/AIDS and the high level of poverty have increased the number of orphans and other vulnerable children in Uganda.
Sitting through a presentation on medical insurance recently, I was beside myself with frustration as the presenter gave new meaning to the word stigma.
United States Government said yesterday it had so far spent $1.5 billion to combat HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. The amount, it said, was part of $18.8 billion global expenditure on the disease.
A steady stream of young men from urban townships and rural farms are lining up for a procedure that few Swazi men have undergone since the custom of removing a man's foreskin died out in the 19th century.
Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido on Friday inaugurated a new purpose built warehouse for medicines and medical equipment.
RECENT evidence suggests an increase in new HIV infections in the country, threatening to overturn the gains the country has achieved in the last 25 years. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) accounts for 21% of new infections, next to sexual transmission - which is the leading source of new HIV infection in Uganda.
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