Health

As fear of another lockdown looms amongst Ugandans, the Ministry of Health has announced how Covid-19 has surged in schools. While speaking to the media yesterday, Dr Henry Mwebesa the director-general of health services urged schools to report all cases of covid 19 detected. “As of 18th May, that’s about a week ago a total of 29 schools from 17 ...

The demand for the covid vaccine has increased after the ministry of health sighted an increase in the covid cases. People have been going for this jab but not in large numbers as recently. All the places where the vaccine is available are now full to capacity. What does this say about Ugandans? Some people on social media are insinuating ...

The government, on Friday, opened the second round of AstraZeneca vaccine to all Ugandans who received the first jab. This is, however, eligible for those that received the first jab over eight weeks ago. Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng received her second jab yesterday and after that, she addressed the press. During the interview, she revealed that some frequent travellers ...

Hospitals in Uganda have started running out of the covid-19 vaccines. Statistics showed that by last month; only 16% of the health workers had been vaccinated. At first, people were reluctant to go for the Covid-19 vaccination, especially the frontline workers. However, hospitals have now started running out of the covid-19 vaccines. Should we then see this as a good ...

‘’Poorer’’ countries will soon be able to see access to HIV self-test kits increase in availability. This follows a drastic slash in prices and boosted production according to Unitaid. The international health agency said it closed a deal with US-based global healthcare company Viatris. The deal will see blood-based self-test kits made available for under $2 across 135 low and ...