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MANILA | Xinhua | The World Health Organization warned Tuesday that antimicrobial resistance is already causing a global health emergency, threatening to erase nearly a century of medical progress as common infections become increasingly challenging to treat. Saia Ma’u Piukala, the WHO regional director for the Western Pacific, said in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Stakeholders in the fight against malaria have made a clarion call to Members of Parliament to give precedence to malaria prevention in the next budgeting cycle. The call was made at a high-level advocacy engagement with MPs, on gender-responsive malaria and health services, on …

C-Care Uganda Marks World Prematurity Day with a Call for Healthy Beginnings and Hopeful Futures  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  C-Care Uganda is set to create awareness about the potential of their hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), which has become a lifeline for families with preterm infants. Focus will …

NAIROBI, KENYA | TASS | Africa is facing the worst cholera outbreak in 25 years, Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director General Jean Kaseya said in an online briefing. According to him, the continent has recorded over 300,000 cholera cases since the beginning of the year, marking a …

  COMMENT | PAUL NEGEMI | In Runyankore we say: Agyenda mpora, ahika hare; loosely translating into ‘Even one who walks at a slow pace will still go far.’ But when it comes to our progress in health as a country, a slow walk is no longer sustainable. Access to quality …

Findings could improve screening and treatment for patients of African ancestry HEALTH REPORT | THE INDEPENDENT & AGENCIES | Scientists have identified variants of five genes linked to aggressive prostate disease or to cancer that spreads, or metastasizes, to other organs in males of African ancestry. The study was published …

ADDIS ABABA | Xinhua |  The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has acknowledged the confirmation by Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health and the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) of a Marburg virus disease outbreak in Jinka, southern Ethiopia. Further epidemiological investigations and laboratory analysis are underway, and …

Symptoms of a UTI include painful urination, urine that looks cloudy or has an unusually unpleasant odor HEALTH REPORT | AGENCIES | A new study has found that nearly one-fifth (20%) of urinary tract infections can be linked to E. coli bacteria in chicken, turkey, pork, or beef. The researchers …

Kampala, Uganda   | THE INDEPENDENT | Lifebox, a global non-profit focused on making surgery and anesthesia safer worldwide, has been named one of the awardees of Action for Women’s Health, a $250 million global funding initiative supporting organizations working to improve women’s mental and physical health. The open call, launched …

In the second part of this series, we show how frontline medics are fighting for a future where routine infections do not become deadly again Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Dr Lorna Atikoro works at Kiruddu National Referral Hospital and describes herself as a soldier in the fight against …