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Busia, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Several People Living with HIV in Busia district are abandoning anti-retroviral drugs due to lack of food.  Many of the residents in the area are starving with no source of income as the government maintains a lockdown in all border districts, in order to control …

📌 Curfew to stay 📌 4 instead of 3 in private cars 📌 Restrictions on Boda Bodas remain 📌 Restrictions on Religious gatherings remain 📌 Restrictions on cross-border entry will be maintained 📌 Salons to remain closed 📌 Arcades remain closed Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  President Yoweri Museveni …

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, | AFP |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The novel coronavirus pandemic is still accelerating and its effects will be felt for decades, the World Health Organization’s director-general told an online conference on Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual health forum organised by Dubai authorities that the greatest …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health is planning to carry out another community survey to ascertain where COVID-19 undetected cases in the country might be. This comes after pockets of positive cases were detected in different parts of the country with new community cases reported in parts …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Dr Diana Atwine has said that the lengthy process for a government entity to avail funds to another stopped the direct provision of COVID-19 funds to the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI). The explanation follows a statement by the …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  As the global outbreak of COVID-19 has upended lives across the world, a rise in conditions including depression and anxiety have been seen as people adapt to lifestyle changes. Medics have observed that public health actions, such as social distancing, can make people feel isolated …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Gulu Regional Blood Bank is struggling to raise enough blood for hospitals and health centres in the region amidst the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown. At least 75 per cent of the blood units in the bank used to be collected from schools and other learning institutions. …

JUBA, South Sudan | XINHUA |  The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared South Sudan free of the poliovirus. “South Sudan’s complete documentation for wild polio virus free status has been accepted. With this feat, WHO’s Africa Region is set to be declared wild poliovirus free 2020,” the WHO South …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The absence of free testing kits frustrated hundreds of people who turned up to test for sickle cell disease in Mukono as the world commemorated the World Sickle Cell Awareness on Friday. Many wanted to utilize a health camp organized in Nantabulirwa-Seeta by Sarafina …

Kigezi, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health has launched a drive to spray mosquitoes using Microbial Larvicide as a way of controlling malaria in the Kigezi sub-region.  The program to be implemented in the districts of Kabale, Rubanda, and Kisoro was launched at Butanda health centre III in …