Many people in the world find it difficult to care for HIV-positive children. Some parents whom we interviewed for purposes of writing this story said that their children keeps on asking them why they give them medicine even when they are not sick. Doctors tell us that the appetite for some of the children […]
Ebola is one of the diseases caused by a virus called filovirus. Ebola has several types but the main types are Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Côte d’Ivoire, Ebola Bundibugyo and Ebola Reston. It is transmitted mainly through direct contact with the blood, secretions, organs, fluids and bodies of an infected person. Ebola can kill […]
About 50% of men in different parts of Africa and the world at large may have a cancer virus called the Human Wart Virus or HPV that causes cervical and other types of cancers. The presence of cancer viruses in men strengthens the case for vaccinating boys against HPV cancer viruses. Researchers studied infection […]
Children bellow five years in Uganda received extra doses of oral polio vaccine even if they had already been immunized and children aged six months to 59 months received measles vaccine irrespective of the previous immunization status and vitamin A supplementation. The Mister for health Christine Androa says that it’s now a policy in […]
Painful sex and genital swellings are closely associated with warts which are a form of sexually transmitted infection. Genetical warts are skin infections of the genital, oral and anal areas as far as the cervix, cavatina, rectum lining, penis-head, urethra, mouth and throats. The warts are caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV). It affects […]
Wearing second hand underwear without washing them first with a detergent can transmit genital warts. Signs of genetal warts may appear in about three months or in a year. After infection signs, pain comes when passing out urine. Another sign of genetical warts are bleeding during sex and chronic itching in the genetical areas and […]
Many people in the world, especially in Africa, Latin America and in some parts of Asia still take human immune deficiency virus (HIV) to be the same as the Acquired Immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV or human immune deficiency virus and AIDS or the Acquired Immune deficiency syndrome is totally different. HIV is a […]
Today we have decided to tell you how HIV/AIDS is spread in Uganda. The medical doctors at Mulago Hospital and at the Ministry of Health-Uganda say that HIV/AIDS spread is on increase in the country due to lack of openness by people living with HIV/Aids to those free of the virus. Uganda’s HIV country […]
New evidence shows that HIV cases first appeared in human beings in Cameroonin the last quarter of the 19th century. A new book on the spread of HIV alleges that the virus spread to humans from a simian, Walakira Nyanzi reports. The book alleges that HIV/AIDS started when a hunter caught an infected chimpanzee for […]