Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Limited has been approved to market antiretrovirals and malaria medicines to the ECOWAS and ZAZIBONA regions Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Limited (CiplaQCIL) recently acquired approval to manufacture and distribute lifesaving medicines to the ECOWAS and ZAZIBONA regions in Africa. The company was …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A big percentage of people who end up presenting with cancer of the stomach and digestive system complications have been wrongly treated for ulcers, according to experts. They revealed this while launching a medical camp scheduled to take place at Mulago Specialised National Referral hospital …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu District health department has failed to enrol back 9,000 people living with HIV on the life-prolonging Anti-Retroviral therapy after abandoning treatment during the nationwide lockdown because of the COVID 19 pandemic. Statistics from the health department show that only 18,000 out of the 27,000 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Every Ugandan will have to pay a minimum of 100,000 Shillings in annual premiums if they want to access health care under the National Health Insurance scheme. According to the current bill, all persons aged 18 and above are liable to making contributions. Employees in …
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Long-term investments, use of real-time data to inform malaria interventions and youth-led campaigns are key to boosting progress towards disease elimination in Africa Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Countries across the sub-Saharan African region should explore fiscal incentives that can stimulate investments in malaria control programs amid the quest to eradicate …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ministry of Health will next month embark on cholera vaccination in flood-prone areas following reports of anticipated heavy rains. Oral cholera vaccine is used as part of the Ministry of Health’s integrated cholera prevention and control strategy. The others include the provision of safe water, improved …
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Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Medics at Soroti Medics have said that the surviving Siamese twin has recovered and is out of danger. Last month, the doctors successfully separated a dead conjoined twin from a live sibling. The twins had last been delivered by caesarean section at Amuria Health Centre IV …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is optimistic that Uganda will get the second consignment of COVID-19 vaccines on time despite the shortages experienced globally. Uganda has so far vaccinated 239,617 people out of the 964,000 dozes of vaccines that were received earlier. Although the government had …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu Regional Referral Hospital has opted for a Kangaroo care system for premature babies as the hospital grapples with a lack of enough incubators. Kangaroo care, or skin-to-skin care, is a technique practiced on newborn, usually preterm, infants wherein the infant is held, skin-to-skin, with …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University researchers have found that more males can seek reproductive health information if innovations such as telemedicine are embraced. In a study in which researchers at the School of Statistics and Planning were assessing the impact of telehealth services in supporting the continuity of family …
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