News Uganda Health: The Ebola outbreak in Congo is now considered an international health emergency, according to the World Health Organization
All three died in early June, but they appear not to have infected anyone in Uganda. On Wednesday, Uganda's health minister announced an infected woman from DRC crossed into Uganda to sell fish; she ...
News Uganda Health: WHO declared the Ebola outbreak in Congo a global health emergency. Here’s what that means.
Health officials worry it could spill over borders to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. But the emergency declaration has proved controversial. Here’s what you need to know: What is a “public ...
News Uganda Health: Uganda delegation understudies best practices in Ghana’s health care waste management system
A five-member delegation from the Ministry of Health in Uganda with support from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, conducted a 4-day study tour to Ghana to understudy the ...
News Uganda Health: A Virginia woman started a feeding program in Uganda. Now she has left Africa amid accusations about her work.
Those numbers differ slightly from the World Health Organization’s 2011 measurements for Uganda as a country, which report 14.1% of children younger than 5 years old are underweight and 33.7% have ...
News Uganda Health: Fatal Voluntourism: Aid Founder Sued in Uganda
Renee Bach, an American who started a health charity in Jinja, Uganda, is being sued by two mothers for allegedly impersonating a doctor and operating an unlicensed health center, which, they charge, ...
News Uganda Health: Uganda health care system can thrive with the involvement of nurses
Mayanja quit flying school in the USA after two just years of study. It was after his sister, a doctor also in the USA, convinced him to try the field of medicine. “I do not think you will enjoy being ...
News Uganda Health: Using motorcycles and 55-cent payments, Uganda groups maps route to health care in remote villages
KAMPALA, Uganda – A nonprofit group in Uganda has issued another loan for a motorcycle-taxi that will also offer free transport for health care workers. Motorcycle taxis are the common form of ...
News Uganda Health: Uganda Remembers AIDS Victims
We can’t afford to be reckless just because there’s treatment," Musoba said. The Ministry of Health says Uganda is close to achieving its "90-90-90" target, set in 2014. The aim is for 90 percent of ...
News Uganda Health: Uganda: How Your Diet, Lifestyle Can Lead You to the Grave
in Uganda, it is at 50 years. A recent study conducted by the Ministry of Health indicates that the prevalence of diabetes in adults is one per cent which, when contextualised in the national ...
