Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United Nation’s Central Emergency Fund has released USD 15 million to fund vulnerable countries with weak health care systems to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The announcement came as the World Health Organization (WHO) upgraded the global risk of the coronavirus outbreak …
Read More »Every child under ‘immediate threat’ from climate, poor diet: UN
Paris, France | AFP | The world is failing to protect children from the health dangers posed by climate change and poor diet, a landmark UN report said Wednesday, warning that every child is under “immediate threat”. According to more than 40 of the world’s pre-eminent child and adolescent health experts, …
Read More »Sahel violence having devastating impact on children: UN
Dakar, Senegal | AFP | Hundreds of children in the Sahel were killed, maimed or forcibly separated from their parents last year, the United Nations said Tuesday, as a jihadist conflict rages across the region. In Mali alone, 277 children were killed or maimed during the first nine months of 2019, …
Read More »WFP renews commitment to end hunger in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Food Programme –WFP has renewed its commitment to end hunger in Uganda by 2030. Ryan Anderson, the WFP Country Representative WFP announced the commitment during an annual stakeholders’ conference held for West Nile and Acholi sub-regions on Wednesday at Muni University. The Conference …
Read More »Health rights advocates call for regulations of fast food industry
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health rights advocates have asked the government to develop regulations and policies to govern the fast food industry in the country because it contravenes children’s nutrition rights. The call follows a lawsuit filed by the Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights-CEFROHT, a …
Read More »Measles killed more than 140,000 amid stagnating vaccine rates
Washington, United States | AFP | More than 140,000 people died from measles worldwide in 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) and US authorities said Thursday, the result of global vaccination rates that have stagnated for almost a decade. Poorer countries were hardest hit, with the vast majority of measles cases …
Read More »Tribute to Med Kaggwa; The gentle human rights advocate
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A cross-section of Ugandan’s continues to pay glowing tribute to Med Kaggwa, the Uganda Human Rights Commission Chair following his death. Kaggwa, who has been at the helm of the Commission suffered a sudden early on Wednesday morning while driving to office. He is suspected …
Read More »Uganda lagging behind in implementing UN convention on rights of children-UNICEF
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is lagging behind in Implementing the UN Convention on the rights of children. According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child-(UNCRC), every child has a right to be protected from any kind of exploitation and should have the right …
Read More »Complacency could thwart Uganda’s immunisation gains- Dr Sabrina Kitaka
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Vaccination has helped Uganda to prevent some of the killer childhood diseases but it’s now being resisted by a section of society, says Dr. Sabrina Kitaka. Dr. Kitaka, a renown Ugandan Pediatric Consultant and Lecturer at Mulago’s School of Medicine says one of the reasons …
Read More »Patients stuck as health workers abandon hospitals to attend vaccination training
Kamuli, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT Patients at Nabirumba Health Centre III are stuck after nurses abandoned the facility to attend a measles vaccination training at Kamuli district headquarters on Monday. The nurses are attending the nationwide training ahead of the age-wide national Measles-Rubella vaccination campaign which is due to run from …
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