Shs2.7 billion request for supervision of Lubowa Hospital works rejected
Members of Parliament on the Health Committee have rejected a supplementary request of Shs2.7 billion by the Ministry of Health to supervise the construction...
Equatorial Guinea confirms first-ever Marburg virus disease outbreak
Equatorial Guinea today confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease. Preliminary tests carried out following the deaths of at least nine people in...
Five billion people unprotected from trans fat leading to heart disease
Five billion people globally remain unprotected from harmful trans fat, a new status report from WHO has found, increasing their risk of heart disease...
How best can Uganda prepare for the next pandemic or epidemic?
In December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The first cases were confirmed in Wuhan city of...
MSF epidemiologists take on the new Ebolavirus variant
It has been over two weeks since the last confirmed Ebola case a stillborn baby of a mother who survived the disease was reported...
