Provide free condoms to Universities, hostels -Members of Parliament
Posted by: bogerecharles
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2012-07-27 14:30:04 -0700 | health-news
The youth Members of Parliament in Uganda have asked government to direct the health ministry to give free condoms to Universities, hostels and other public places. The youth MPs have forwarded their concern through Uganda Parliamentary Youth, an umbrella in...
Medics attack Church Leaders over escalating HIV/AIDS prevalence rates
Posted by: bogerecharles
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2012-07-27 12:26:29 -0700 | health-news
The Medical fraternity has attacked Religious Leaders over increased HIV/AIDS prevalence in Uganda. The Chairman of Uganda Islamic Medical Association Majid Kagimu says that Religious Leaders have not used their platform to sensitize people ways of reducing the scourge. Prof.Majid...
Mulago hospital officials fail to account 7billion shillings in arrears
Posted by: bogerecharles
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2012-07-27 12:31:08 -0700 | health-news
Members of Parliament on Parliamentary Accounts Committee have sent away Mulago hospital officials for failing to avail to the Committee documents to justify shilling 7 billion in arrears. The Parliamentary Accounts Committee is chaired by Wadri Kasiano, Member of Parliament,...
Is Uganda in line with the World Population Day theme?
Posted by: bogerecharles
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2012-07-27 12:31:10 -0700 | health-news
The World Population day we celebrated yesterday but one, portrayed a good theme to Uganda. The theme ''Make access to health services a priority'' came at a time when Uganda's population is increasingly growing at 45 percent, most highest in...
Hoima cholera cases rise to 65, officials say
Posted by: odokijimmy
Hoima :: Uganda | updated 2013-05-05 23:12:49 -0700 | health-news
The number of cumulative cholera cases registered in Hoima District (Western Uganda) has reached 65 since the epidemic broke out mid-April. The district health inspector, Mr Fredrick Byenume, said most of the affected are males who are 10 years and...
MEDICAL CENTRES RECEIVE EQUIPMENT
Posted by: NJALERUMAKIGOZI
Mukono :: Uganda | updated 2012-08-22 11:28:39 -0700 | health-news
Ten medical centes in Uganda has received Cervical Cansor screening equipment worth 50000 US dollars each.The medical centres that benefited out of this Mildmay Uganda donation include Nyenga,Jinja,Tororo,Masindi,Masaka,other
Increased eye infection rates in Northern Uganda worry Health Ministry
Posted by: bogerecharles
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2012-07-27 12:31:12 -0700 | health-news
Eye infection rates have shoot up in Acholi region, in Northern Uganda. One of the eye patients, Charles Okech tells how he came to lose sight. A 41year Charles Okech says he lost sight of the right eye when way...
Africa: Experts Call For Healthcare Packages
Source: All Africa
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-12 13:25:19 -0700 | health-news
Odiyo was speaking during a regional workshop to validate the regional standard practice package for expanding access to family planning, maternal, newborn and child health services at Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala on Wednesday. Odiyo pointed out that because of...
A 24 years old expectant mother dies due to midwife negligence
Posted by: bogerecharles
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2012-07-27 12:31:14 -0700 | health-news
A 24 years expectant mother identified as Katusabe died at Isunga Health Center in Kyanakaiso Sub-County. According to sources, the expectant mother fidgeted as she asked for assistance from the midwife who was resting in the clinic after a long...
How Circumcision May Stem H.I.V.
Source: The New York Times Health Blog
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-18 09:52:21 -0700 | health-news
24 pm Circumcision reduces a man's risk of acquiring and transmitting H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted diseases, and now researchers have found a possible explanation: the procedure reduces the quantity and diversity of bacteria at the head of the penis....
Why circumcision lowers risk of HIV
Source: CNN
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-19 10:31:01 -0700 | health-news
Promising trials hinted that circumcision could lower rates of HIV infection, but until now, researchers didn't fully understand why. Now, in a study published in the journal mBio , scientists say that changes in the population of bacteria living on...
Circumcision lowers risk of HIV and other sexually-transmitted diseases by half because it changes ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-15 23:51:09 -0700 | health-news
15 April 2013 Circumcision offers protection against HIV and other viruses because bacteria cannot multiply under the foreskin, a study has found. It has been known for some time that circumcision reduces the risk of sexually transmitted diseases such as...
Uganda: Heart-Warming Innovation Saves Newborns
Source: Africa Headlines
Mbale :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-11 11:20:38 -0700 | health-news
Mbale In areas where electricity is unreliable or equipment is scarce, low-cost infant warmers could help keep low-weight newborns alive. Adonno's baby, Sylvia, weighed just 1.5 kg (3.3 pounds) when she was delivered by midwives at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital...
Standing up for African mothers
Source: CNN
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-05-09 07:26:59 -0700 | health-news
Stand Up For African Mothers" campaign, an initiative aiming to train an additional 15,000 midwives by 2015...Madudu works as a midwife in the Tiriri health center in the small village of Atitiri in rural eastern Uganda. Like in many clinics...
Uganda grapples with paediatric vaccine shortages
Source: IRIN
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-05-14 06:53:00 -0700 | health-news
Ugandan children are going unimmunized as the country grapples with persistent and widespread vaccine shortages, the result of insufficient funds and inefficient procurement and supply systems, officials say. We are getting reports and calls from all the districts about the...
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