The General Secretary of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) Dr Herbert Luswata told URN this morning that they had earlier presented a statement to parliament clarifying that many genetic studies have attempted to establish why homosexuality happens but none has been successful in pinpointing one specific homosexual gene responsible.
Read more ...Dr. Nelson said while the Cabotegravir Long Acting Injection commonly known as Cab-LA was approved for use in HIV prevention by the World Health Organisation last year, the doses available are still too few to provide enough quantities for all countries in need.
Read more ...Dr. John Nkengasong, who oversees the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR,) which is until now Uganda’s biggest funder for HIV treatments, said the country has been receiving US$400million annually and the passage of the anti-homosexuality bill into law will jeopardize efforts to end HIV.
Read more ...Currently, the maternal mortality rate in Uganda stands at 284 women per 100,000 live births
Read more ...Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the Senior Public Relations Officer at the Ministry of Health said top officials in the ministry held a meeting on Tuesday and resolved that screening starts at Kasensero, Kikagati, and Mutukula border points.
Read more ...The study whose results are published in the journal AIDS was also conducted in Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe and now researchers say each one-year increase in partner age is associated with a 9 per cent greater likelihood of recent HIV acquisition among females between 15 and 24 years.
Read more ...The global analysis which reviewed household access to WASH services, the burden of WASH-attributable deaths among children under five, and exposure to climate and environmental hazards reveal where children face the biggest threat and where investment in solutions is desperately needed to prevent unnecessary deaths.
Read more ...Dr. Leonard Mutebi, the President of Uganda Medical Interns United said all throughout the internship, there has been no time when they were paid immediately when the month ended as the money has been coming in installments of three months or more after either strikes or threats to strike.
Read more ...This brings the total number of diseases being immunized under the routine immunization program to fourteen.
Read more ...According to Dr. Diana Atwine, the MOH Permanent Secretary this plan which is set to be implemented within the next five years includes equipping of theatres and training of personnel expected to run these facilities. Atwine says this was part of the things she solicited for when she traveled to London last year to seek partnerships that will improve healthcare in Uganda and have now signed a partnership with a UK charity organization Kids Operating Room to provide the service.
Read more ...The other countries in dire need include Uganda, Burundi, Somalia, Cameroon Mozambique Sudan, Malawi, Central African Republic, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Togo, Tanzania, Gambia, and Zimbabwe.
Read more ...Speaking to journalists on Monday as the ministry launched activities to mark the annual sanitation week, Dr. Diana Atwine the Permanent Secretary said other than offering people latrines and urging them to clean up their homes, they are discussing with local governments to introduce fines for people who don’t comply to community sanitary standards.
Read more ...Phiona Arinaitwe, a Programs Officer at Uganda Network on Law, Ethics and HIV/AIDS (UGANET) said the fight against HIV would have been made easier if the government adopted innovations that enable people living with HIV access information that would help them improve their quality of life.
Read more ...Dr. Dan Kaye, a Gynecologist at the government-owned Kawempe National Referral hospital, says while private facilities have moved on to online resources such as clinic master to record and save patient data, at the facility the book gets filled in less than a month.
Read more ...Only nine countries namely Brazil, Chile, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Uruguay have a comprehensive package of recommended policies to reduce sodium intake.
Read more ...Today, grief management and holding tough conversations with relatives of broken and financially strained caregivers have become part of the 50-year-old’s daily to-do list.
Read more ...Speaking during a regional meeting on the optimization of radiation protection of patients in Computed Tomography organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday, Radiologists said it’s important for them to put in place regulations that ensure only those that really need clinical investigations using CT undergo it.
Read more ...The Health Minister, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, says that the test kit dubbed "Check Now" was developed by global medical device company Abbott and tested for effectiveness by the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI).
Read more ...Speaking at a meeting attended by experts in heart disease from a number of countries across the world, Dr. Johnson Kansiime, the clinical lead at St Marys Lacor Hospital said with less than twenty adult cardiologists in a country of about forty-five million people, there is need to address issues in the curriculum that makes it less accessible to doctors progressing in their studies.
Read more ...The experts said that teachers who were trained using a largely theoretical curriculum are the same supposed to implement a curriculum that is focusing on hands-on skills.
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