Health
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The horror of teenage pregnancies in Pallisa
October 1, 2016Up to 60 percent of all pregnancies in Pallisa district happen among underage girls, a situation...
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Uganda adopts Injectable polio vaccine
July 28, 2016The Ministry of Health has adopted a World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation to move from Oral...
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Health to acquire Boda-boda ‘ambulances’ for villages
July 23, 2016Officials from the Uganda National Ambulance Services (UNAS) say the ministry of health is planning to...
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Regional effort seeks to eradicate TB by 2035
July 9, 2016Two top medics in East Africa walked into a hall at Nelson Mandela African Institution of...
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Korea’s mobile health promises to fill yawning health gap
June 20, 2016The recent launch of Korea Aid, a development aid program geared towards providing mobile healthcare and...
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Is TB more deadly than HIV/Aids?
May 30, 2016Tuberculosis is raging silently in the villages and towns across Uganda but the disease appears to...
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US surgeons say they can no longer operate Carol
May 12, 2016It is not clear how the hundreds of Ugandans and family members who generously contributed to...
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No one is safe from toxic foods in Uganda
May 10, 2016The war on aflatoxin contamination in human food and livestock feed on the African continent has...
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Ugandan girls empowered with hand-made sanitary pads
May 5, 2016You wouldn’t be blamed if you haven’t heard about a village called Kaababbi Bulondo, even though...
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Yellow fever vaccination to start in May – Health
April 22, 2016The Ministry of Health is scheduled to start vaccinating people against the yellow fever disease in...