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Our reporters visited Busoga Region/Busoga kingdom today and found out that the hospitals in Bugiri and Iganga districts were in a very miserable state. Our reporter Maureen Nakyanzi reports that for example in Bugiri a patient finds the hospital in a more ill state than the sick people who go to it to get […]
Ms Zuena, the wife to Uganda’s music star, Bebe Cool has been readmitted at Moyo Clinic in Wandegeya suffering from acute malaria. She was first admitted at the same clinic a fort night ago. Sources working at the clinic say that the wife of the popular musician is improving steadily. However the shock of the day is […]
Kamwenge District may be at a higher risk to face the increased rate of malaria prevalence if serious attention is not paid to malaria prevention efforts. Bazaaraki Vincent the records personnel medical department says the rate of malaria prevalence in Kamwenge in the month of June was at 53%. Bazaaraki explains that of the16, 079 people […]
A cheap, common heartworm medication that is already being used to fight other parasites in Africa could also dramatically interrupt transmission of malaria, potentially providing an inexpensive tool to fight a disease that kills almost 800,000 people each year, according to a new study published today in the July edition of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Parliament has approved a motion for the creation of a special forum on malaria, the leading single killer disease in Uganda. The motion, presented by Jinja West MP, Moses Balyeku, seeks for the establishment of the forum to tackle issues to do with malaria in the country. Balyeku noted that malaria is one of the […]
In a bid to ensure increased access to medicines, a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer has announced a 50% cut on its major drugs on the market. The company announced on Wednesday that the move is aimed at improving health care in developing countries like Uganda. Gsk East African managing director John Musunga says drugs especially anti-malarial, […]
According to statistics from ministry of health, in Uganda, malaria has historically been a very serious health problem and currently poses the most significant threat to the health of the population. It accounts for 25-40% of all outpatients’ visits at health facilities, 20% of hospital admissions and 15% of in-patients deaths and has a case-fatality […]
Uganda has been selected as one of the first three countries to benefit from US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) that will fund malaria prevention and treatment efforts. A statement from the United States Center for Disease Control says that PMI which is a program under the US Global Health Initiative will help improve efforts against […]
The Minister of Uganda for Health, Dr. Stephen Malinga has said malaria deaths are on steep decline in Uganda due to the government’s serious efforts to eliminate it throughout Uganda. He says hardly any children died of malaria in urban centres in Kampala and other parts of the country since May 2010. Addressing journalists in […]
World Vision Uganda has revealed that Malaria, Pneumonia, Malnutrition and a host of other respiratory illnesses cause 70 percent of child mortality cases in Uganda. According to a press statement seen by Ultimate Media, World Vision which is an International NGO operating in Uganda says acute malnutrition is cause of 38 percent of child stuntedness, 16 percent […]