Health

New data from UNAIDS shows that atleast three people died in a village in Rakai each week throughout the 1990s in the district where HIV was first diagnosed (1983) in Uganda. Three decades later, Rakai...

The dirty business of fake spices, cold drinks and other items have flooded the local markets have escalated in Uganda due to their high demand. In September, there were reports that conmen were packing adulterated...

Youthful innovators from Makerere University’s College of Health Sciences School of Public Health-ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) have scooped top two cash prizes in Boston, USA. This was at the interactive Innovation Marketplace at the USAID’s Higher...

Local football giants KCCA FC under their KCCA Foundation in partnership with Zak Sports have today launched a charity drive to help ailing mothers and babies at Naguru Hospital. The city side will have a...

The adorable mother of one died today Wednesday after a brave battle against a brain clot. Lukisha Val has over months been battling the ailment at the ICU section of Case Hospital from where she...

Uganda has one of the most favorable refugee protection environments in the world Uganda is now home to more than 495,000 refugees from South Sudan, according to the UNHCR. Since July 2016, Uganda receives not...

Maj Gen Julius Oketta, 60, the vice chairman of Operation Wealth Creation, who died this morning at Kadic hospital in Kampala where he was rushed Friday night after he suffered a heart attack has been...

Nineteen-year-old Patrick Otukene, from Patalira Village, Gulu District, lost both his parents as a young boy. Patrick Otukene was trained in Tin Smith under Save the Children YIELD Project, now he is a local artisan...

President Museveni has today November 4th, 2016 confirmed Dr Diana Atwine, the former head of State House Health Monitoring Unit as Ministry of Health permanent secretary (PS), TheUgandan can confirm. Dr Atwine, a physician and...

In Uganda, 25.2 percent of girls aged 15 to 19 were either mothers or pregnant in 2012, according to data from the World Bank and compiled by Quandl.(NET PHOTO) A primary seven pupil at Ongerei...