Health

Food rights lawyer and Centre for food and adequate living rights (CEFROHT) executive director David Kabanda has threatened to sue hotel owners for serving unhealthy food. While a breakfast buffet...

Uganda has had several outbreaks of the Ebola virus starting in 2000 – 2001 (Sudan ebolavirus), 2007–2008 (Bundibugyo ebolavirus), 2011 (Sudan ebolavirus), 2012 (Sudan ebolavirus), 2012–2013 (Sudan ebolavirus), 2018–2020 (Zaire...

Hundreds of people suffering from cataract have come to the luweero hospital to get free cataract screening and surgery in a two days eye health camp organized by Helping Hand...

An 18-year-old pregnant mother of one, resident of Katega village in Kabembe areas trekked over 12kms to CPS Nagalama, Kayunga District where she gave birth to a baby girl at...

Civil society groups in Kenya are complaining about a chronic shortage of free condoms across the country.The life-saving products are usually imported and distributed for free but due to high...

Spina bifida is a condition present at birth when there are problems with the spine, spinal cord, and the surrounding nerves. It is a type of neural tube defect (NTD)...

The Uganda Prisons Services has banned visits to inmates in five districts following the outbreak of Ebola.  A statement by the Uganda Prisons Service Spokesperson, Frank Mayanja Baine, says the Commissioner...

Parliament has reconsidered the Public Health (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which was returned by President Yoweri Museveni. While presenting the report of the Committee of Health on reconsideration of the Bill,...

Vendors in Hoima Central Market want it closed over poor sanitation. This follows the blockage of the sewage line leading to the free flow of human waste around the busy market,...

The Ministry of Health has revealed that it will commence trials of three vaccines developed to combat Ebola Sudan virus which has since September killed 43 people out of 153...