Uganda: How Agri-Food Sector Could Unlock Millions of Jobs for African Youth

Africa's agri-food sector holds significant untapped potential to deliver millions of jobs and livelihoods for the continent's rapidly growing youth population, according to a new… Read more »

Zambia: Zambia Heightens Measures to Contain Cholera Outbreak

Zambian health authorities on Thursday announced that measures have been heightened to contain the outbreak of cholera which has now spread to 12 districts in the country. Read more »

Uganda: First Lady in Isolation At Rwakyitura After Testing Positive for Covid-19

President Yoweri Museveni has revealed that First Lady Janet Museveni is self-isolating at home after a positive test for COVID-19. The tests were done after she reportedly felt… Read more »

Uganda: World Malaria Report 2023 - a Call for Concerted Action to Address Growing Threats

The World Health Organization's World Malaria Report 2023, released this month, paints a concerning picture of the global state of malaria in 2022. Despite continued efforts,… Read more »

Uganda: Self-Testing Kits Are Critical Tools in the Effort to End HIV

The most recent statistics from the Uganda Aids Commission show that Uganda registered 52,000 new HIV infections since the year began. Fort Portal and Mbarara cities took first and… Read more »

Uganda: Antibiotic Resistance Is a Silent Epidemic

Each year antimicrobial resistance - the ability of microbes to survive agents designed to kill them - claims more lives than malaria and HIV/Aids combined. Africa bears the brunt… Read more »

Uganda: African Voices Unite to Drive Cervical Cancer Elimination Across the Continent

In collaboration with stakeholders, ACHA will leverage resources and expertise, contributing to women's health, and protecting families and livelihoods Read more »

Uganda: Human Rights Watch - Support Maternal Community Health Workers

Governments should review their positions on traditional birth attendants and recognise and support their work, including by ensuring they are paid and resourced adequately. That… Read more »

Africa: WHO Approves First African-Manufactured Malaria Drug

A leading Kenya-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, Universal Corporation Ltd (UCL), has become the first African manufacturer to gain WHO prequalification for their… Read more »

Uganda: Behind the 'Back to School Plague'

Parents are often confused by the changes and diseases children are diagnosed with during the first days of reporting back to school for a new term. This is in most cases… Read more »

Uganda: Minister Babalanda Receives Medal for Championing HIV/Aids Fight in Uganda

The Minister for the Presidency, Hon. Babirye Milly Babalanda received an award from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) for her contribution towards the fight… Read more »

Uganda: When Hospitals Become Prisons

A case of a health facility detaining a patient for failure to pay a medical bill is once again in the news and the courts. This time, it is a couple suing a high end facility,… Read more »

Uganda: Parliament Awaits Medical Board Approval to Pay MP Ssegirinya's Bills

Parliament will foot the medical bills of Muhammad Ssegirinya (NUP, Kawempe Division North) once his documents are in order with the Uganda Medical Board. Read more »

Uganda: Medics Ask Government to Criminalize the Use of Marijuana

The Director of Butabika National Referral Hospital, Dr Juliet Nakku implored Members of Parliament to ignore the economic pressures and ban the production and sale of cannabis and… Read more »

Uganda: Failure to Pay Medical Interns Is Dangerous, Say Experts

Healthcare worker strikes in Uganda are likely to have greater negative impact on poor and vulnerable patients, according to research published in Cureus, a journal of medical… Read more »

Uganda: UPDF Contingent in DRC Joins Drive to Fight Cholera

The Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) Contingent operating under the East African Regional Force (EACRF) to keep peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) joined the… Read more »

Uganda: Uganda to Get First-Ever Malaria Vaccine

In response to high demand for the first-ever malaria vaccine, Uganda has been listed among 12 countries in Africa that will be allocated a total of 18 million doses of RTS,S/AS01… Read more »

Uganda: Uganda Bureau of Statistics Trashes Reports of Bad Blood With U.S. Govt

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) trashed media reports claiming bad blood between the country's statistics body and United States Embassy in Kampala over Uganda Demographic… Read more »

Uganda: Is Climate Change Fueling Uganda's Malaria Burden?

Even though the government has over the past couple of decades masterminded a wide-range of interventions in its fight against malaria, one of the deadliest diseases on earth,… Read more »

Uganda: Museveni - I Am Not in ICU

President Yoweri Museveni has said he is doing a lot of 'paper work' at State House and not in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as Kenyans on social media have claimed. Read more »

Uganda: Actionaid Holds Inter-Generational Dialogue On FGM and GBV in Amudat

ActionAid Uganda has held a one-day intergenerational dialogue in Lokales subcounty, Amudat district and the main objectives is to enhance inter-generational relationship between… Read more »

Uganda: President Museveni Tests Positive for Covid-19

The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health Dr Diana Atwine has confirmed that President Yoweri Museveni has tested positive for Covid-19, Read more »

Africa: Africa CDC Partners With WHO to Tackle Emergencies

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and World Health Organisation (WHO) have launched of a Joint Emergency Preparedness and Response Action Plan… Read more »

Ghana: Ghana Further Eases Covid-19 Restrictions

The Ghanaian government said Saturday that the country decided to further lift COVID-19 restrictions amid declining global and domestic trends for the infection. Read more »

Uganda: Vaccine Against Malaria in Children Gets Approval

Ghana on April 13 became the first country to approve public usage of a new experimental vaccine for children to protect them from malaria. Read more »