Health

The CDC US has asked for contacts of Ebola patients so they can be halted from traveling to their country to avoid wider spread of the virus. Dr. Henry G. Mwebesa, the director general of Health Services confirmed this development. He says that these contacts will have to be isolated for 22 days before issuing them any clearance certificate to ...

Winnie Byanyima, the wife to opposition politician and Doctor, Kizza Besigye, has called for better protection of women and girls against HIV/AIDS. As the executive director of United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), she spotted three major issues. She hopes that these can help to bring the girls to safety and empowerment. One of the issues includes rolling out universal ...

The Ministry of Health will today release some of the 65 health workers that were recently quarantined after exposure to the Ebola virus. The Health Minister Dr. Jane Aceng confirmed this. The mutated Ebola Sudan strain virus has by far claimed the lives of three health workers including a trainee doctor from Tanzania. Yesterday, the Ministry of Health discharged a ...

Hon Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, The Minister of Health has asked two of the first Ebola survivors to become ambassadors of prevention. These two survivors recovered from Mubende hospital. She asked them to preach about the signs and symptoms of the disease in their community. Hon Aceng’s message got delivered yesterday at the official discharge of the patients who survived ...

The Forum for Democratic Change Party has urged the government to provide free transport for Ebola patients and also support their families. Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, the party spokesperson, said the party has instructed all its branches to participate in and lead awareness campaigns in their communities against the disease. He said this while speaking to the media during their weekly ...