After calling on their governments to invest in immunization for the girl child on October 11th, and engaged them to eradicate Polio once and for all on October 24th, civil society across Africa are making sure Pneumonia vaccines are high on the agenda. In commemorating World Pneumonia Day, organizations in
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The Government of Uganda has asked striking doctors to return to work, arguing that their grievances are being handled. In a statement dated November8, 2017, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health and David Karubanga, the Minister of State for Public Service thanked ‘Patriotic’ Doctors who remained at work
Read MoreAfrica’s richest person Aliko Dangote through Aliko Dangote Foundation has pledged to invest US$100m over five years to tackle malnutrition in the worst-affected parts of Nigeria. He made the pledge at the recently concluded Global Nutrition Summit 2017 held in Milan, Italy, where governments, international agencies, foundations, civil society organisations
Read MoreThe World Health Organization is part of an international effort working to rapidly contain an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in eastern Uganda on the border with Kenya. Marburg Hemorrhagic fever shares similarities with Ebola. The virus is very rare, extremely contagious, and has a high mortality rate. It
Read MorePresident Salva Kiir opened South Sudan's first-ever kidney hospital Thursday in Juba, calling it a breakthrough for the country's medical care. The facility — a welcome positive sign in conflict-torn South Sudan -- is to provide free services to all kidney patients in the country, including foreigners who have been
Read MoreAfrican countries that are signatories to the Maputo Protocol have been urged to safeguard reproductive health rights of women by permitting abortion in cases of sexual assault or where pregnancy poses a risk to the physical or mental health of a woman. States have also been urged to decriminalize abortion
Read MoreAs the world celebrated the International Day of the Girl Child yesterday, organizations in over ten countries launched the 33 Days to Power Up Immunization Campaign to hold governments accountable for the multiple promises they have made to support immunization, including this year's Addis Declaration on Immunization. In 2016, the
Read MoreOnly four medical facilities in and around Kampala have properly stocked and road worthy ambulances. Ambulances are vehicles or means of transport equipped to take sick or injured people to and from the hospital in emergency situations. According to a disaster preparedness drill that was carried out in June this
Read MoreThe plan by Government to supply contraceptives to pupils in schools in order to curb teenage pregnancies hangs in balance after MPs questioned it implementation. They now want the programme stopped until guidelines on how to successfully implement the programme are in place. Taking on to the floor of Parliament,
Read MoreAn antibody that attacks 99 per cent of HIV strains has been developed by scientists for the first time. The “exciting breakthrough” could eventually lead to treatment or even prevent transmission of the virus, with trials on humans due to get underway in 2018. Experiments on 24 monkeys injected with HIV showed none developed the virus
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