Cabinet’s approval of the policy comes at the same time when the United National Fund for Population, (UNFPA) and the government of Uganda were launching the
UNFPA UGANDA 9th Country Programme (2021-2025)
Michael Ochwoo, the Centre Manager for TASO Gulu says several persons living with HIV who could not afford transport at the time of the lockdown were forced to abandon treatment.
Mariam Najjuko, a resident of Kizito zone in Luwero town council, says that she has attended two awareness campaigns for cervical cancer screening but she is yet to go for it.
Sr. Suzan Okwakol, the Assistant District Health Officer, who doubles as the in charge of Maternal and Child Health in Kumi, says they registered more than 1,900 teenage pregnancies between January and September, 2020 at different heath facilities across the district.
The Rubanda District Health Officer, Dr. Abdon Birungi, says the 26 people who tested positive for the virus are part of about 12000 people who have been screened in the district since mid-last month.
Dr. Richard Bakamuturaki, the District Health Officer, says Ntungamo has got seven community cases; three local government staff and four security personnel
A source at the facility told URN that the X-ray unit was closed on October 15th, 2020 because the radiation from the X-ray machine was exposing the operators to danger.
