2022 Year In health: New Ebola and cholera outbreaks, mpox emergency, COVID-19 ‘not over
This year saw encouraging developments in drug treatments: in March, the first injection to offer long-lasting protection against HIV was ...
Tag: Ebola
Pandemics can only be defeated if communities are supported to lead, say govts, NGOs and UN
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS (PHOTO/Courtesy). Community-led responses are a critical part of the AIDS pandemic response, and must ...
Uganda seeks to introduce Hepatitis B birth dose, Malaria Vaccines
Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng Acero shares a light moment with Makerere University Vice Chancellor Prof Barnabas Nawangwe (PHOTO/Courtesy). ...
Museveni puts Mubende, Kassanda on lockdown to contain ebola
President Museveni has announced curfew measures to contain ebola (PHOTO/Courtesy). KAMPALA — President Museveni has declared a daily curfew on ...
Ebola infects 28 people, kills 11 in Guinea, DRC
Ebola is a highly contagious hemorrhagic fever (PHOTO/Courtesy). ADDIS ABABA -- The African countries of Guinea and the Democratic Republic ...
Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, DRC stoke new fears in Africa
Medical personnel in Democratic Republic of the Congo decontaminating selves of Ebola virus (PHOTO/File). NAIROBI -- New outbreaks of the ...
DR Congo confirms new positive case of Ebola virus disease in the country’s east
A team from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) don protective clothing and equipment as they prepare to treat Ebola patients in ...
NRM Manifesto Week 2020: Defense sector has fulfilled 90% of the manifesto – Minister
KAMPALA - The Ministries of Defense and Security have delivered 90% of the commitment of its manifesto set in 2016 ...
DRC’s last Ebola patient discharged —WHO
A team from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) don protective clothing and equipment as they prepare to treat Ebola patients in ...
Uganda borrows $1million from AfDB to contain Ebola transmission
Funds have been disbursed through the World Health Organization (WHO), which is the implementing agency (PHOTO/File) KAMPALA — The African ...
