UNAIDS is issuing countries with a stark wake-up call. In a new report, launched July 18, 2018 in Paris, France, at an event co-hosted with Coalition PLUS, UNAIDS warns that the global response to HIV is at a precarious point. At the halfway point to the 2020 targets, the report,
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Residents of Bugulumbya and surrounding areas in Kamuli district Sunday received free medical services at a free Airtel Uganda community health fair. The fair was held at Kasambira SDA Primary School and was presided over by Honorable Isaac Isanga Musumba. In partnership with The Hind’s Feet Project, a Non-Profit Organization
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A Ugandan inventor has won a major prize for a device which tests for malaria without drawing blood. Brian Gitta, 24, won the Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for a device that detects tell-tale signs of malaria by shining a red beam of light on the patient's finger. The
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Increasing consumption of meat and meat products among households has created more demand for standards and quality products in the meat value chain. Speaking at the National Stakeholders Meeting for players in the meat value chain, as part of the celebrations to mark the World Food Safety Day, the Uganda
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In March, Kenya agreed to accelerate a health agreement it signed with Cuba last year to bring in 100 doctors. The doctors, who have started arriving in Kenya, are meant to fill what the government has termed "gaps" in county hospitals. The Kenyan doctors' union thinks those gaps should be
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Researchers are close to finding a vaccine for HIV/AIDs in a historic breakthrough that will play a big role in ending the deadly virus. Researchers from Vaccine Interest Group (VIG) in Uganda say there is hope that by 2020 HIV vaccine could be in place following ongoing clinical trials in
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Magnus Medi, a global medical value travel facilitator, headquartered in Mumbai, India and in Uganda, in association with Kokilaben Dhirubai Ambani Hospital, one of India’s top 10 hospitals and le Mémorial Hospital in Uganda, have organised a 2-day free cancer & gynaecological medical camp. The camp brings together medical specialists
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has explained the rationale behind government’s determination to hire about 200 Cuban Doctors, a move that has been criticized by many. Speaking at International Labour Day celebrations held on Tuesday in Sembabule district, an angry Museveni said the idea to bring in Cuban doctors was due
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Uganda and Kenya have shockingly resorted to importing doctors from Cuba despite the high unemployment levels in the East African counties. The move has received a lot of position from local medics and the public. On Wednesday 18, 2018, Uganda’s Minister of State for Health Sarah Opendi revealed that government
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The Ugandan government has apologised for delayed enactment of the National Health Insurance Scheme Bill into law which would allow Ugandans have affordable medical care. In July 2017, the Ministry of Finance awarded a certificate of financial implications to the National Health Insurance Bill, 2012 paving way for the creation
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