Health

In Uganda, at least 158 people get infected with HIV/AIDS on a daily basis. With that, a new UNAIDS report says the world is currently derailed from the tracks to end HIV/AIDS by 2030. The 3.6% reduction in global HIV infections in 2021 is the smallest annual fall since 2016. Jotham Mubangizi, the head of Strategic Information at UNAIDS Uganda ...

There has been a stock out of ARVs in the country that has caused fear among the people living with HIV/AIDS. Apparently, for the last four to five months there has been a crisis of absence of third-line ARVs. Patients have experienced a lot of difficulties in adhering to life-saving treatment. While addressing the media, people Living with HIV/Aids and ...

Government scientists have embarked on testing for monkeypox internally in a bit to increase vigilance and prevention against the disease. This comes on the backdrop of the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaration that the outbreak of monkeypox is a public health emergency of international concern. In the past, Uganda has been sending samples to South Africa to test them for ...

A good number of malaria patients in Uganda are facing wrong diagnoses and are consequently experiencing treatment failure. Experts attribute this mainly to the mutation of the malaria parasite making it drug-resistant. The warning comes amidst a continued upsurge in malaria cases across various districts in the country. There is a daily average of 37,600 cases which has resulted in ...

Experts have warned that the world has given up in the most effective way of fighting Covid-19. It is now over two years since the pandemic started and properly ventilating public spaces is still lacking. Antoine Flahault, director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva said there is an apparent “fragile, armed peace” with Covid-19. “In ...