Seventy percent of the food sold on Ugandan streets is contaminated, according to Dr. Benon Kwesiga, an epidemiologist with the Health Ministry, URN reports. In his study published in the International Journal of Food Contamination in June, Dr. Kwesiga, says a large sample of food consumed from the street contains
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Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in Burkina Faso as part of an anti-malaria campaign. While some critics have raised concerns, the scientists involved said the release, which was the first of its kind in Africa, represented a very important milestone. Burkina Faso's Research Institute of Health Sciences, a government
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A top health official has warned that although Ebola outbreaks can be controlled, the disease will keep returning until political stability is achieved in the region. The outbreak can be stopped this time but "it may come back, because the system is weak," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebryesus, chief executive of
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The Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda (PSU), a professional body for pharmacists in Uganda has demanded that the British Broadcasting Services (BBC) withdraws the documentary dubbed ‘Stealing from the Sick’ that implicated a number of medical officers including pharmacists stealing drugs from public health facilities. In a statement authored and signed
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The Uganda Atomic Energy Council-AEC-Uganda has closed the x-ray section at Masaka Regional Referral hospital citing radiation leakage. AEC-Uganda is mandated to regulate the peaceful application of ionizing radiation, protection and safety of radioactive sources. A source told local news agency, URN that the xray was closed because of
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Last week, the Ebola virus crossed from the Democratic Republic of Congo into Uganda. Since then, the virus has not only claimed two lives, but also brought trade along the border region to a virtual halt. Businessman Penge Kiss has been importing fish for the last 15 years from Uganda
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Health workers in Uganda have received clearance to start using experimental vaccines for the Ebola disease. Last week two people who had travelled from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo died from Ebola in Uganda. People who came into contact with them have already received experimental vaccines. The head of
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Countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya could be paying up to 30 times more than the recommended price for medicines, a new report says. US-based Center for Global Development (CDG) says that lower to middle-income countries are losing out when purchasing what it calls branded generic drugs. Report author
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is in Uganda to assess the country's response to the Ebola outbreak. Tedros arrived in the country on Sunday evening from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where he had been on similar mission. As a requirement, the WHO
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Health authorities in Kenya’s Kericho County are on a red alert over a suspected case of Ebola, Daily Nation reports. This was after a patient exhibited suspected symptoms of the haemorrhagic fever at Kericho County Referral Hospital. County officials on Monday said the woman had travelled from Malaba, a town
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