Health

How do they impact on your tummy? | THE INDEPENDENT | It seems intuitive that cooked food and raw food likely impact the gut microbiome in different ways, but there has been little to no research on this topic — so far. A new study in mice and humans now …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Only 48 per cent of young people have comprehensive knowledge about how HIV is spread and how they can guard against it, according to data shared by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Uganda, this afternoon. For one to have comprehensive knowledge …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Veterinary experts are concerned that the mistreatment of animals comprises the quality of meat and makes it unsafe for human consumption. A number of animals, especially cattle, goats, sheep and chicken are often seen overloaded on trucks, tied badly or over beaten while heading …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 20% of babies supposed to be benefiting from routine immunization are not getting the vaccine. This was revealed by Dr Alfred Driwale the Programme Manager Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization in the Ministry of Health in an interview with Uganda Radio Network. Driwale …

Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Agriculturalists have called for efforts to preserve and grow traditional food crops. The call was made on Thursday during the Rwenzori Regional Indigenous Food and Seed Fair that was organized by Sustainable Agriculture Trainers Network (SATNET) that was held in Fort Portal. They …

Lausanne, Switzerland | AFP | FIFA are organising an event to raise funds and awareness to tackle AIDS, tubercolosis and malaria, their president Gianni Infantino told AFP on Friday. Infantino said the idea was in response to Thursday’s announcement tmat governments, philanthropists and private firms had pledged just over $14 …

Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | A Zimbabwe court on Friday declared a five-week doctors’ strike over pay “unlawful” and gave the medics 48 hours to return to their wards. Doctors across the country are striking for a salary rise after rampant inflation lowered their pay to the equivalent of less …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | According to the WHO report, people living in low income countries are affected most by blindness and impaired sight It is estimated that over one billion people in the world are forced to live with eye impairments like short and farsightedness, glaucoma and cataract. …

We’ve heard it for years: Cut back on red meat in favour of lean meats like fish or chicken. But now researchers say there’s evidence red meat may not be quite as bad for our health as we have thought. | THE INDEPENDENT | A rigorous review of the evidence …

It’s fueled by HIV prevalence and multidrug resistance (MDR) | THE INDEPENDENT | It looks like it’s time to pay the piper. The first extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strain of Salmonella typhimurium, called ST313 sublineage II.1, has cropped up in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This fails to respond to …