The country has launched a health week with the aim of vaccinating all children under the age of five against polio, as well as educating women about immunisation. Read more »

Uganda Institute of Allied Health and Management Sciences in Mulago has been closed after a two-day students' strike over power, poor accommodation and poor administration. The ... Read more »

The number of premature babies in the country has continued to grow. Of the 1.5 million born yearly, 210,000 are born before 37 weeks of pregnancy, according to Dr. Gelasius ... Read more »

According to the First Vice President Seifa Sharif Hamad, Zanzibar has been a success story in the fight against malaria. However, he has called on the government and other ... Read more »

According to the Malaria Consortium Country Director, 40 percent of all deaths in children under five are as a result of diarrhoea, pneumonia or malaria. The Consortium called for ... Read more »

The world is on the brink of something great in the battle against one of the world’s most stubborn and cunning parasites - malaria, says Dr. Carlos Campbell, who has been ... Read more »

Seventy-five percent of the more than one million premature babies who die annually can be saved by using simple and affordable prevention and treatment methods, an advocate says. Read more »

Doctors in Uganda have received Sh6.5 billion toward a salary increase, and Sh43 billion more was promised to them after they went on strike. Read more »

The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has postponed the switching off of fake phones by another seven months to July 2013 in order to give the commission enough time to ... Read more »

A report from the ministry of land, housing and urban development has estimated that over 60 percent of the urban population live in slums - apparently brought about by the ... Read more »