Health

Kagera, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT |  Tanzania has confirmed its first-ever cases of Marburg Virus Disease after laboratory tests were carried out following reports of cases and deaths in the country’s north-west Kagera region. Tanzania’s National Public Health Laboratory analysed samples to determine the cause of illness after eight people …

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and partners review ecosystem Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has hosted lead partners of Partnerships for African Vaccine Manufacturing (PAVM) for review of vaccine manufacturing ecosystem in Africa The meeting, which took place from …

Partnership of 8 countries mooted at Kampala meeting COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | A consortium of African civil society organisations has kick-started a campaign to change the continent’s gloomy situation regarding vaccines and other essential pharmaceutical products. Of all vaccines administered on the continent, only 1% of these vaccines are …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Scientists have explained to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee that developing a vaccine against COVID-19 will take a longer than earlier expected, given the different processes involved. The scientists appeared before the committee alongside officials from the former Ministry of Science, Technology …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu Region Referral Hospital (GRRH) is struggling to manage and respond to Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The EMS Unit at GRRH was established this year as a requirement by the health ministry but officials in the department say that they are faced with an acute shortage …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | A total of 53,660 cholera cases have been confirmed in a multi-country outbreak of the disease since February 2023, the Africa Center for Disease Control (Africa CDC) has said. A total of 13 member countries have reported cholera cases since the beginning of the year, with …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has confirmed Associate Professor Peter Ogwang as the true owner of the COVIDEX support drug used on the COVID 19 virus. High Court Judge Musa Ssekaana ruled Friday that the ownership of the COVIDEX drug isn’t contested since Mbarara University …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health (MOH) has started immunizing children aged nine months against yellow. This brings the total number of diseases being immunized under the routine immunization programme to fourteen. While this had earlier stalled having first planned to start in October 2022 during the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda National Bureau of Standards-UNBS has commenced the enforcement of standards on food additives. The additives are substances that are not part of a food or beverage in its natural form but are substances added to preserve, flavor, or enhance taste, appearance, or other …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is to carry out a massive deworming campaign for children in the country to reduce cases of anemia in the country. Dr. Charles Olaro, the Director of curative services at the Ministry of Health said that in Uganda 53 percent …