Uganda News

30th January 2009. WHO/Uganda Staff in a group Photo during their annual retreat held in Jinja Nile Resort from 21st to 23rd January, 2009 

26th March 2009. The Ministry of Health will strive to ensure that the fight against TB is intensified and that all leaders, stakeholder, communities, families and individuals are mobilized for this cause. This was stated by the Minister of Information and National Guidance Mrs Kabakumba Masiko during the World TB Day commemoration held in Masindi District under the national theme: I am stopping TB and Controlling HIV.

Avril 2009. Uganda immunized over 2.3 million children against point in the first round of polio immunization done in 29 high risk districts. This was over the 2.2 million children who had been targeted in this emergency exercise that is in response to an outbreak of polio in Amuru district northern Uganda. 

27 Avril 2009 -- The WHO Country Representative for Uganda, Dr. Joaquim Saweka (standing), the Programme Manager, AIDS Control Programme of the Uganda Ministry of Health Dr Zainab Akol, and Eastern Region ART Coordinator Dr Emmy Habyara during the official opening of the International Integrated Management of Adult and Childhood Illnesses (IMAI) Training workshop at Crested Crane Hotel, Jinja April 20th 2009.

The Minister of State for Health (General Duties) Honourable Richard Nduhura has called for solidarity in blood donation so that people who need blood in emergencies can easily access it. The Minister was speaking during the commemoration of World Blood Donor’s Day 2009, and opening of the Regional Blood Bank in Mbarara town South-western Uganda.

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Kampala, 7 April 2011-- In Uganda today, there are 150 cases of Multidrug resistant tuberculosis that have been reported in the community. These and more cases are resistant to the recommended anti-TB drugs that include isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide, ethambutol and streptomycin.

Kampala, 2nd March 2012 - The Government of Uganda, with support from the World Health Organization and other partners has adopted a multi‐sectoral approach to respond to the Nodding Syndrome that is affecting some districts in the northern part of the country. The Office of the Prime Minister will lead and coordinate the response with aspects such as health handled by the Ministry of Health; nutrition by Ministry of Disaster Preparedness; hygiene and water supply by Minister of Water and Environment; and finance by Ministry of Finance.

Grace Adyero, like many other caretakers in the room hardly says a word or smiles. She only stares blankly at the child lying on the bed with grief written all over her face. Her demeanor and facial expression seem to inaudibly ask “why me?”

“We have been here for two days and now he has rested a bit. It must be the medicine and food they have given him. He was worse at home and we had given up on him ‐ just waiting for him to die one day,” she tells me through an interpreter.

Uganda commemorated World No Tobacco Day with grand activities between 28 and 31 May, 2012, to raise public awareness about the harmful effects of tobacco and also advocate for the adoption of the Tobacco Control Policy and establishing tobacco control legislation.

Kampala, 30th July 2012:‐ The First International Scientific Meeting on Nodding Syndrome (NS) opened this morning in Kampala, Uganda. Experts from around the world have converged to discuss and find a way forward on a number of issues including a standardized way to define cases of Nodding Syndrome (NS); whether NS is syndrome or a diseases and the association that seems to exist between Onchocerciasis and NS.