Health

The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) has been tasked with leading global efforts to eliminate polio through a new reference laboratory set to open at its Entebbe-based facility.

Authorities in Kikuube District have temporarily closed Uganda’s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following an Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC.

A 30-year-old man has been beaten to death in Kyaterekera Sub-county, Kagadi District. The deceased has been identified as Saturday Justus, a resident of Kiyenzi Village in Kyaterekera Sub-county.

For too long, the story of surgery in Uganda has carried an unavoidable fear: the fear that getting the care you need might push your family into poverty.

The government has been urged to take immediate action to fortify staple foods with folic acid to prevent Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus.

US-based former Club Silk DJ and producer Rachael Kungu, commonly known as DJ Rachael, has launched an appeal for donations totaling $100,000 approximately Ugx 350,000,000 to support her cancer treatment.

The National Drug Authority -NDA has withdrawn an anesthetic drug from the market following complaints from health facilities that the drug is inefficient.

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Presidential Candidate, General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has announced plans to recruit more than 1,400 health inspectors for Health C

The Police at Wandegeya, in partnership with the National Drug Authority (NDA) have arrested an individual identified as Ogwenga Nicholas and recovered illegal drugs in Nakasero that were being falsely marketed as treatment for hypertension.

The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Community Affairs, Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, has criticized the Ministry of Health for failing to declare an emergency over the outbreak of Cholera in Amuru district despite rising deaths and infections.