Kampala - Luxembourg, Sweden and the United Kingdom, through WHO, have provided in-kind contributions of equipment and services worth US$ 995,000 (equivalent to over 3.6 billion ugx) to Uganda to equip the new Ebola Trea…
Read moreKampala, Brazzaville, Geneva – The first doses of one of three candidate vaccines against Sudan ebolavirus arrived in Uganda yesterday. These will be evaluated in a clinical trial called the Solidarity Against Ebola or T…
Read moreKampala - World Health Organization (WHO) has provided in-kind contributions of medical supplies worth 1,123,672 (equivalent to UGX 4.1 billion) to the Ministry of Health to address the health consequences of the drought…
Read moreAkwii Magdalena is a seven-year-old girl enrolled in a primary school class in Kapelebyong District from the Karamoja Region of Uganda. The third of three children, Akwii is living with HIV just like the 87,719 children …
Read moreFirst meeting at 8:00am, last one at 7:00pm. In between, Hilda Wesonga untiringly goes from one village to another to sensitize communities on the current Ebola outbreak.
Read moreAs the first doses of candidate vaccines against the Sudan ebola virus are expected to arrive in Uganda in the coming days, World Health Organization (WHO) is boosting efforts to support the government-led response against the outbreak which has now affected nine districts, including three complex urban environments.
Read moreUganda declared an outbreak of the Sudan ebolavirus on 20 September 2022 in the country’s central Mubende district, which is about a two-hour drive away from the capital, Kampala. Some Ebola patients travelled from the outbreak epicentre to Kampala in search of care and by 7 November, there were 17 confirmed cases in the city.
Read moreThe Ugandan Ministry of Health is set to administer the new oral polio vaccine (nOPV2) to 8.7 million children aged zero to five years old in a nationwide door-to-door campaign from 4 to 10 November 2022, as part of the …
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