KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | Uganda’s Ministry of Health has completed the polio immunization targeting 2.7 million children under five in the eastern part of the country after the virus outbreak was detected there in May, a health official said here Monday. The four-day door-to-door vaccination exercise across 49 districts …
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KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | Another 33 people have tested positive for mpox in Uganda, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the country to 69, a health official said here Tuesday. Daniel Kyabayinze, director of public health at the Ugandan Ministry of Health, told Xinhua over the telephone that …
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ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Rwandan health authorities will begin a vaccine study against the Marburg hemorrhagic fever, officials said Sunday, as the East African country tries to stop the spread of an outbreak that has killed 12 people. Rwanda, which received 700 doses of a vaccine under trial from the U.S.-based …
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COMMENT | DAVID MUWONGE | Just as blood donations can save a mother facing complications during childbirth, breast milk donations and ‘milk banks’ are more than able to do the same for a child. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways …
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Onapito Ekomoloit’s shocking death: A painful wake up call for the urgent need for Uganda to holistically address the silent ‘epidemic’ of cancers COMMENT | DR AMBROSE OTAU TALISUNA | On the 27th of September 2024, we woke up to the devastating news that our colleague, veteran journalist, former Member of Parliament, …
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden | TASS & Xinhua | The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to two American scientists, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA molecules that regulate gene activity, the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced. The scientists won the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that a fourth WHO-prequalified human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine known as Cecolin has been confirmed for use in a single-dose schedule. According to a press statement released on Friday, the decision was based on new data on the product …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of education and Sports has issued guidelines and standard operating procedures aimed at preventing the spread of Mpox (monkeypox) in educational institutions. In a circular addressed to all heads of institutions and other stakeholders, Dr Kedrace Turyagyenda, the new permanent secretary at …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is on high alert following the confirmation of an outbreak of Marburg viral hemorrhagic fever in neighbouring Rwanda. Dr Sabin Nsanzimana, the Rwandan Minister for Health said on Thursday, that the country had recorded seven new cases of the highly infectious disease bringing …
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LOS ANGELES | Xinhua | U.S. researchers have developed six lines of humanized mice that can serve as valuable models for studying human cases of COVID-19, according to a newly published study. These mouse models, developed by researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, are important for COVID-19 research because …
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