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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | AstraZeneca has announced a planned expansion of its access to healthcare programme, Healthy Heart Africa (HHA), to 10 new countries, starting in 2023. The programme, which is currently present in nine countries including Uganda, is designed to contribute to the prevention and control of hypertension …

Ageism shouldn’t block messages that encourage younger people to adopt healthy lifestyles that prevent them | DR. PELIN INCESU | Young people have always been critical drivers of change. From Soweto, where children rose up against apartheid, to Malala standing up for girls’ education, to Greta and the school strikers …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | AstraZeneca’s Healthy Heart Africa (HHA) programme marked two years of action against hypertension on May 17, working in partnership with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB). Since its launch in May 2020, up to the end of March 2022, …

Q & A | SciDev.Net | Seventy per cent of nearly 10 million cancer-related deaths in 2020 occurred in low-and middle-income countries, according to the World Health Organization. And the cancer mortality rate in these countries is likely underestimated because many countries lack adequate cancer registries and reporting systems. Meanwhile, …

Abuja, Nigeria | Xinhua | Nigerian government on Wednesday destroyed over 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine withdrawn from across the country after being identified for having a short shelf life. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), which coordinates vaccination in the country, and the National Agency for Food …

Combining two different COVID-19 vaccines provides protection on par with that of mRNA vaccines — including protection against the Delta variant | EWEN CALLAWAY | Study after study has shown that people who receive two different COVID-19 vaccines generate potent immune responses, with side effects no worse than those caused …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nsambya hospital is on the spot for injecting a student two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in a space of just two days after health workers failed to trace her information that had been recorded on the first visit. Under normal circumstances, a person who …

Stockholm, Sweden | Xinhua | Antibody levels following COVID-19 vaccination decrease more rapidly than previously believed, according to a study of staff at a hospital in Stockholm, Swedish Television reported on Tuesday. Seven months after receiving the second dose, the number of antibodies had decreased by 85 percent among those immunized …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district has run out of Covid-19 vaccines. The district received 1,571 doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinovac early this month. This was in addition to 1,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that had been supplied by the Ministry of Health in August. The acting …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has received an additional 655,053 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. 501,153 doses were donated by the French government while the 153,900 doses were from Belgium. Rudi Veestraeten, the Ambassador of Belgium to Uganda, says that this is part of the 350,000 doses the country …