Minister for Lands, Housing, and Urban Development, Judith Nabakooba, has called for immediate measures to ensure the sustainability of urban infrastructure investments under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) program.
Speaking at the National Urban...
Many Ugandans particularly women and young people are excluded from entering and participating in politics because they cannot afford it, according to a research published on 28 October 2020 by the Public Policy Institute (PPI), Westminster...
The conference serves as a platform to share experiences, learn from best practices, and mobilize collective action to achieve a TB-free and leprosy-free Uganda while fostering strong partnerships and implementing innovative strategies.
According to the study done by Makerere School of Public Health, it was unveiled that the national prevalence rate of epilepsy in Uganda is alarmingly high at 1.69%, indicating that over 770,000 Ugandans are living with the disease.
According to the International Diabetes Foundation, in 2021, an estimated 716,000 adults in Uganda had diabetes. About 89% of Ugandans with diabetes are neither on medication nor aware of their status and therefore present to the health system with difficult-to-treat complications.
Putting in mind the above scenarios with undisputed data from reliable sources and the voices of the coffee farmers who they claim to be fighting for, after meeting Katikiro Charles Peter Mayiga, they shared that UCDA has not been of help to them as coffee farmers and that they should be left to embrace the president’s decision of rationalization.
The Ministry of Health, together with the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization (UNEPI), has flagged off the second phase of their Cold Chain Equipment project at their headquarters in Kampala.
Uganda on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, confirmed its first mpox death as the increasing number of laboratory-confirmed infections hit 164 in the country.