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The launch and signing of the new partnership between The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS) and the Millennium Villages Project to keep babies from Africa and Uganda free of HIV provides a ray of hope despite Uganda's increase in HIV incidence.
About 80,000 women living with HIV/Aids get pregnant annually in Uganda and 20,000 to 25,000 of these pass the virus to their babies. This process of an HIV positive woman passing the virus to her baby is what has technically been referred to as Mother to child transmission.
HIV-positive patients using a drug that the World Health Organisation says causes long term irreversible side-effects will have to make do with it until the Kenyan government shifts to a lesser toxic drug.
THE Imbalu (circumcision) period in Bugisu has been found to increase school drop-out rates for the girl child.
Recently, a local daily carried a story saying National Medical Stores (NMS) had discovered 100 ghost health centres. NMS should be commended for the discovery given that they were in the past known for stocking expired drugs. I hope the new NMS management will create a new chapter and ensure that they deliver drugs to only existing health units.
FDC president Kizza Besigye has blamed the recent death of Jinja Chief Administrative Officer Peter ken Iprotum Okiror on failure of the government to provide better medical services to the masses.
Thirty years after the AIDS virus was discovered, experts bemoan unsteady rate of infections in Africa. This was the major highlight during World AIDS Day which was marked six days ago. According to a report release the number of people infected with the virus that causes AIDS seems to be mostly stable in other parts of the world apart from Africa.
He was just a month old when his parents started noticing some symptoms of a health problem in him but it was not until eight months later that it was discovered that the little Aghachukwu Ovu is suffering from tetralogy of fallot, a disease of a hole in the heart.
IN order to prevent new HIV infections in Namibia, conversations have to form a part of the country's HIV prevention strategy.
Right To Play (RTP), an athlete driven international humanitarian NGO said it is working to address the specific problems of stigma and discrimination against People living with HIV/AIDS in different schools here.
MEDIA practitioners and musicians have been challenged on support campaign against HIV/AIDS in the country.
About 13,000 people are currently infected with the Human Immune Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) virus in Bauchi State with Katagum, Ningi, Tafawa Balewa and Jama' Are Local Government Areas having the highest rate among the 20 local government councils in the state.
FOR State patients in Namibia with kidney failure and in need of chronic dialysis, the "writing is on the wall", as a source inside the Ministry of Health and Social Services has told The Namibian.
THE 85 000 people that make up the public sector now have a policy that details the Government's approach to dealing with HIVAIDS in the workplace.
WIFE of Abia State governor, Mrs. Odochi Orji, has advocated total abstinence and mutual fidelity to partners as the best option to control the spread of HIV/AIDS pandemic.
THIS week we celebrated World AIDS day. Though celebration is hardly the right word for such an occasion, it was an opportunity to highlight the fact that AIDS is still with us and take stock of the progress which has been made in combating this epidemic. In Uganda, the picture regarding AIDS is mixed - we have taken some steps forward and also gone backwards. The overall rate of HIV is now lower ...
OBESITY is on the rise in Uganda and the few trained diet and nutrition professionals cannot handle the increasing numbers, a health official has disclosed.
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 ...
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