While attending the meeting held at Kibuli Senior Secondary School, Dr. Hellen Aanyu, a Pediatrician at Mulago National Referral Hospital said many undiagnosed children miss school unnecessarily because of failure to diagnose them early so that they are enrolled in treatment.
In a statement shared on their website, the company reveals that the companies can sale cheaper copies of the drug also known as generics, subject to required regulatory approvals, in 120 high-incidence, resource-limited countries, which are primarily low- and lower-middle income countries.
According to a press statement released on Friday, the decision was based on new data on the product that fulfilled the criteria set out in the WHO’s 2022 recommendations for alternative, off-label use of HPV vaccines in single-dose schedules.
Mercury is widely used in small-scale gold mining to separate gold from other minerals due to its ability to form an amalgam with gold. However, this process releases substantial amounts of mercury into the environment, contributing to 37% of global mercury emissions.
Prof Pontiano Kaleebu the Executive Director of UVRI said the virus strain currently circulating in Uganda and the neighbouring DR Congo is Clade 1b and yet no studies have been done to establish how the vaccine behaves with it.
According to Mark Mwesiga, the Executive Director of the Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU) there is a big problem of awareness where many people don’t know when to seek and yet some are scared of being enrolled onto palliative care wrongly branding it a last resort or death sentence.
Dr Sabin Nsanzimana, the Rwandan Minister for Health said on Thursday, that the country had recorded seven new cases of the highly infectious disease bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 36. The total of deaths has risen to 11 cases.
The ministry has issued five key guidelines to school heads aimed at preventing the spread of Mpox. These measures echo those previously implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.
While Uganda’s first cases were imported from the neighboring DR Congo into the Kasese district, Kagirita says they are seeing high numbers from the fishing communities and worse they are seeing ladies present with serious genital attacks with many developing big lesions that take a long to clear.
Dr. Nandy, who previously held a similar position in the Islamic Republic of Iran, presented his credentials to John Mulimba, Uganda’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, during a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kampala on Tuesday.
Midwives play a crucial role in providing emotional, physical, and medical support to expectant mothers, ensuring safe and healthy childbirth. However, the role has traditionally been viewed as a female profession.
During these vigils, which happen twice every year in September when the global safe abortion day is marked and in December during the 16 days of activism the community is asked to compile names of girls who succumbed to maternal health complications.
While releasing findings of their three years research in the two regions on Friday, the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) revealed women and girls in Karamoja still use old and rudimentary options of secluding themselves and seating on heaps of soil during their monthly period.
Dr Diana Atwine the Permanent Secretary in Uganda’s Ministry of Health called for urgent integration of innovations geared towards solving AMR noting that countries should quickly turn these speeches into action.
Sekajja who reports going through an initiation procedure to access natural spirits in order to obtain secret healing knowledge during his research says genuine healers don’t become at will but go through a thorough apprenticeship that guides them on acceptable practice.
According to Dr. Charles Olaro, the Director of Curative Services in the Ministry of Health, the same group of people who will receive this vaccine in the current campaign will get another jab of a vaccine component known as Mvabea as a second dose starting on the 23rd of November 2024.
In 2022, there were 27,133 trials taking place in the world’s 86 rich countries compared to 24,791 in 131 poor countries. However, there have been concerns that developing countries have been targeted for inclusion in clinical trials, only for the resulting data to be used in getting health interventions authorized in high-income countries, sidelining the participating low-income countries.
Aceng says part of the problem is with detection as many Ugandans are still unaware of where to go to do basic screening and only turn up very late and many times with advanced stage disease.
Speaking at the launch, the WHO Director- General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for collaboration between countries and organizations to invest strategically in life-saving innovations.
When he spoke to URN on Monday, Oringa had just returned from another futile journey, this time to Jinja, having got an alert via telephone that his child had been found. Before that he had been to a several of places within Kampala following police alerts of missing children who had been found.
