Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Insurance Brokers Association of Uganda (IBAU) in partnership with Nakasero Blood Bank has organized a two-day blood donation drive at New Taxi Park. Speaking during the opening of the inaugural blood donation drive aimed at New Taxi Park today, Christopher Bakesiga Mugisha, IBAU Business …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts are concerned that Uganda may not meet its commitment to defeating HIV as an epidemic by 2030, as children living with the virus struggle to stay on treatment. Michael Byamukama, the Country Director of the Regional Psycho-social Support Initiative (REPSSI), reports that the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have blocked medical interns from holding a press conference pushing for deployment by the Ministry of Health. The interns had gathered at Mulago guest house Monday morning, where they had called journalists to discuss the need for deployment to different medical facilities. However, …
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Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Drug Authority-NDA has partnered with Mbarara Regional referral hospital to report Adverse Drug Reactions. Adverse Drug effects can occur as a result of contamination during transportation or storage, poor prescription, counterfeit products, and allergies. In 2019, the National Pharmacovigilance Center received 603 reports …
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | Some 12 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa missed out entirely or partially on routine immunization from 2019 to 2021, the United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, has disclosed. UNICEF, in its report entitled “State of the World’s Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination …
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Amudat, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 200 girls in Looro primary school Amudat district have been trained to make reusable sanitary pads. The school project of Reusable sanitary pads that started in 2022 has now attracted many girls who feel relieved from the stress of managing their menstrual cycle. …
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United Nations, USA | Xinhua | A new report of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) finds that public perception of the importance of vaccines for children declined during the COVID-19 pandemic in 52 out of 55 countries studied. The State of the World’s Children 2023 report, which, for the first time, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda urgently needs to check the food safety crisis or risk the burden of illness and deaths dues to the consumption of toxic food and beverages. A number of experts warn that the food we consume is getting contaminated right from the garden, storage, markets, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda National Bureau of Standards, UNBS, is rallying schools and other institutions to reject grain products from companies that do not meet the required standards. In this way, UNBS says, the millers will be compelled to abide by standards production and in the …
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What will it take to discover and identify which viruses pose the greatest risks to humans? COMMENT | William A. Haseltine | Although COVID-19 restrictions are rapidly fading around the world, we are still reeling from the impact of the past three years. More than 6.8 million deaths from COVID-19 have been …
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