The Uganda Network of Young People living with HIV/AIDS (UNYPA) has today launched a mini condom campaign aimed at increasing the demand and use of condoms among young people in a bid to curb unintended pregnancies, new infections and spread of STIs and STDs. This campaign is going to be implemented in the districts of…
The ministry of health has today officially received Mandela National Stadium Namboole stadium as a temporary COVID-19 treatment unit. This follows three months rehabilitation activities of the facility by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to make it habitable. According to the ministry, the purpose of this facility is to handle COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms who…
Korea Shincheonji Church of Jesus will give plasma donations for the second time as a group, as a quick vaccine development for COVID-19 is becoming even more necessary with the recent re-spreading of the virus. Plasma donations of Shincheonji Church of Daegu will take place for seven days from August 27th to September 4th (except…
Distribution of government facemasks in Kampala metropolitan area is set to commence tomorrow, the ministry of health has revealed. The free face mask distribution which started in June this year is part of government’s intervention to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the country. While giving an update on COVID-19 response in Uganda today, the…
The covid-19 pandemic has brought the world to its knees.Virtually all countries have taken a hard hit irrespective of the advancement of health systems, economic or political might. I don’t know about other countries, but here in Uganda, the ordinary person has suffered most. Businesses are at a standstill, there is uncertainty over the opening…
The minister of Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng has opened up on the viral pictures in which she is seen violating the COVID-19 social distancing rule. Contrary to social media reports where the minister was pinned for holding a political rally, Aceng says she was launching the distribution of face masks in Aromo Subcounty when…
Uganda has so far spent over 14 million dollars on COVID-19 tests ever since the disease outbreak, the ministry of health has revealed. According to Dr. Henry Mwebesa, the Director-General Health Services, the funds have been used on the over 216,000 COVID-19 tests that have so far been conducted in the country. Of these tests,…
The ministry of health has launched the MOH capacity building mobile application to build the capacity of Uganda’s health workforce as they work on the Frontline of the country’s COVID-19 response. The app was developed in partnership with Community Health Academy- Last Mile health and Makerere College of Health Sciences under the leadership of ministry…
The Kenyan truck driver who was found dead in Busia district over the weekend tested negative for COVID-19, the ministry of health has revealed. Samuel Kinywa Wangware, 35, a resident of Mathira, Kenya was found lying dead near his parked truck, registration number KAT 578T at Busitema check point along the Tororo-Iganga highway on Saturday…
The first group of Ugandan Returnees who have been stranded abroad due to airport and border closure amidst COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the country yesterday. This is after government allowed a total of 2,392 Ugandans stranded abroad to return in a phased and orderly manner. According to the ministry of Health, Uganda will receive a…
