POLIO ERADICATION: Kenya and Uganda cross-border polio vaccination reaches 6.5 million children
Health authorities in Uganda, Kenya and counterparts from the World Health Organization-WHO have confirmed that between October 3 and 6, 2024, more than 6.5...
MARBURG VIRUS OUTBREAK: 8 Killed in Rwanda as Authorities Limits Funeral Sizes
BBC. Authorities in Rwanda have restricted funeral sizes for victims of Marburg virus in an effort to curb an outbreak of the highly contagious...
FIGHTING HIV/AIDS: Uganda to receive 10,000 doses of Cabotegravir injectable drug
Uganda's Ministry of Health has announced plans to introduce a long-acting injectable HIV prevention drug, known as Cabotegravir (CAB-LA), from September 2024.
The injectable HIV...
UGANDA: Why are young women and girls abandoning life-saving HIV treatment?
Health experts and HIV/AIDS activists in Uganda are concerned over the increasing number of young women and girls in care who are abandoning antiretroviral...
ENDING AIDS BY 2030: Gender Inequalities & Human Rights Violations Increasing Children & Women’s Vulnerability to HIV
It is unfinished business, and only the urgent and accelerated delivery of HIV services will keep the promise of ending AIDS in children by...
UGANDA: How HIV-positive young women and girls have abandoned ARVs
Health experts in Mbarara City and other parts of western Uganda have expressed concern over the increasing number of people living with HIV abandoning...