Health

Distinguished diplomat Alain Sibenaler has started his term as the Country Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to Uganda. Sibenaler, a national of Luxembourg has worked in the UN system since 1996 and left Sri Lanka...

The ministry of education recently revealed to parliament that there are no funds for the distribution of free sanitary pads among gals whose families could not afford them although it was President Museveni’s campaign process. After numerous...

Lives of people of many parts of Uganda, especially poor women and children are at risk as public hospitals in the district have run out of malaria drugs according to a recent report from the...

A 29-year-old mother of two Police officer, ASP Jackie Khanakwa is battling deadly cancer that affects supporting tissues of the uterus. The former Old Mulago police station commander has been bedridden since April 2016 after...

State Minister for Agriculture Vincent Ssempijja has said birdflu outbreak is under control and government together with other stakeholders are working to ensure that trade in poultry and poultry products resumes. "Everything is almost back...

The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has this year embarked on transforming the Health and Education sectors during their week-long Tarehe Sita (Six days). Brig George Johnson Etyang who is the overall supervisor of this year’s Tarehe...

Speech by the Honorable Minister of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries during communication of outbreak of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak in wild and domestic bird in Uganda 15th January 2017. Ladies and...

The Gulu District Health Department is set to rollout vaccines to protect babies from the deadly meningitis. It follows the conducting of an orientation of health personnel on the meningitis vaccinations that will be carried on...

A good number of patients who were admitted and later discharged from Masaka Regional Referral Hospital have refused to return to their respective homes because of free meals served at the facility, Mr Eleazer Mugisha,...

A malaria vaccine that uses a weakened form of the parasite has passed a "critical milestone" in human safety trials, say researchers. Doctors used a genetically modified form of malaria that was unable to cause...