Health Section

The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) is on the verge of realizing its pioneering project to employ genetically modified mosquitoes...

A significant rise in multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) cases has sparked concern in Uganda, particularly in the Kampala Metropolitan Area and...

During the annual Women Leaders' Forum, the Minister of Gender, Labour, and Social Development, Ms Betty Amongi, expressed her perspective...

A recent report released by the Ministry of Health has shed light on the concerning state of food safety in...

The National Drug Authority (NDA) has expressed alarm regarding a herbal medicine produced by Eloipharm (U) Ltd, a company based...

Introduction: In a groundbreaking study, researchers have discovered a powerful link between proper hydration and improved brain function and mood....

A chronic disease, type 2 diabetes affects millions of people worldwide. It happens when the body develops a resistance to...

A plant-based diet is no longer merely a trend or a way of life; it is now widely acknowledged as...

A single measles infection has been found in Kampala Capital City, according to the Health Ministry, despite heightened efforts to...

More than 770,000 Ugandans have epilepsy, with the eastern part of the country leading the way, according to a new...

Researchers have discovered a new organ in the human throat while scanning for prostate cancer. Quite the reach… No one...

You have no handkerchief; you cannot afford toilet paper or facial tissue and you are worried about the coronavirus, no...

The Government has upgraded six health centre IVs to general hospital status. The move is aimed at equipping them and...

The health ministry has received a donation of transport equipment worth sh728m for its continued Ebola response in the country....

The Government is to roll out a mass immunisation drive for all children under 15 across the country against measles,...

Livia Kesande a resident of Kasenda sub-county in Kabarole district was admitted at Buhinga hospital in Fort Portal was allegedly...

DICK Senoga, a fifth-year student of medicine at Makerere University, was on Thursday intercepted by the Police and the State...

Officials from the Ministry of Health are concerned about the increased cases of incest in communities, the health state minister...

Security operatives are hunting for a man who has been impersonating medical doctors in Mityana Hospital. Chris Egwang has been...

President Yoweri Museveni has said that he is ready for the ground breaking ceremony for the Aga Khan University Hospital...

The First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Mrs. Janet Museveni, has expressed concern over the increasing rate of...

It is true that marijuana can cause mental illness and many mentally unstable patients in Uganda have a history of...

Uganda is set to manufacture larvicide, an insecticide used to kill mosquitoes in their infantry, health minister Dr Jane Ruth...

The State House health monitoring unit (HMU) has unearthed shocking rot at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital. Besides the rampant theft...

As an adult who completed all your childhood vaccination or were never fully immunized, you may think you are off...

screening at its border points with the Democratic Republic of Congo as more Congolese refugees flock into Uganda to flee...

The director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has hailed Uganda for her role in controlling...

Mulago Hospital leadership has announced that the facility will be able to perform kidney transplant procedures before March. Apart from...

Expired drugs worth over sh1.5m have been confiscated by the Police in Amuria district. The drugs were impounded in Wera...

The Uganda Medical Association president, Dr. Obuku Ekwaru, has previously rejected the proposal, saying the Government should instead focus on...

Nurses with degrees are stuck. They cannot be placed anywhere in the health service system because there is no scheme...

He says the facility serves over 9,000 people, a number he says is too high for a health centre II....

According to the guidelines, people that could take or continue with Septrin are HIV-positive people newly enrolled on treatment, pregnant...

Have you wondered how the story of HIV in Uganda might be visualised, or what the narrative, artifacts and archives...

HIV-negative. Among the singles, 10% said they had never tested. In gender, 3% female and 7% males have never tested....

I t never occurred to Prince Dick Kayemba and his wife, Naomi Nagujja, that they could ever have children. As...

Dr Violet Nabatte, an HIV specialist at Mildmay-Uganda, says in the past when HIV care and treatment was introduced, they...

After testing HIV positive, Harriet Kiiza lost the will to live. She would go without food for several days. Subsequently,...

Fausta Aketh, a nutritionist with Internal Rescue Committee, says consumption of two tablespoonfuls in day will enable one tap into...

“I had tried out several diet plans, combined with exercising, in a bid to lose weight. I stopped taking wheat...