Health

The testing of the Ebola vaccine will be ready to launch as the Ministry of Health has given it a green light. This happened after Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, the Health Minister, commissioned a clinical team of seven to start trials. The team came from the Makerere University Lung Institute and will start the trials of the drug that shipped ...

The Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) has launched a First Aid Training school where people can learn how to give first aid. In addition to this, the society also launched commercial ambulance services for those who can manage to pay for them. The launch took place on Friday at the headquarters of URCS in Kampala. Robert Kwesiga, the URCS General ...

Yesterday, the Mubende Ebola treatment Unit health team breathed a sigh of relief after they discharged their last Ebola patients. The last patients included three women and a one-year-old baby. They received their discharge letters late evening on Wednesday and can now reunite with their families. Dr Paskar Apiyo, the head of the Mubende Ebola Treatment team, revealed that they ...

The South Korean Government is set to donate 50,000 doses of the monkey pox vaccines to the African Union. This will be Africa’s first weapon against the outbreak ever since it began. In July, the U.N. health agency designated monkeypox as a global emergency and appealed to the world to support African countries. Further, they did this to avoid repeating ...

The parliament has asked government to bring back intensive HIV/Aids awareness creation campaigns to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS. It said these campaigns should focus majorly on adolescents because they are registering the highest number of infections. This call came after a statement by the Minister of Presidency, Ms. Milly Babalanda pointing out the infection rate among adolescents. “Infections among ...