GENEVA | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 47 million health professionals, patients, advocates, representatives from civil society organizations, and individuals worldwide have signed a resounding call for urgent action to reduce air pollution and to protect people’s health from its devastating impacts. Air pollution is one of the biggest environmental …
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KAMPALA, UGANDA | Patricia Akankwatsa | In a combined effort to improve oral health among Ugandan children, Unilever, through its Pepsodent brand, has launched a nationwide campaign to educate 400,000 children on the importance of proper oral hygiene. The initiative, which kicked off at Kitante Primary School on World Oral Health …
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GENEVA | THE INDEPENDENT | Severe heavy bleeding, also referred to as hemorrhage, and hypertensive disorders like preeclampsia are the leading causes of maternal deaths globally, according to a new study released on Saturday by the World Health Organization (WHO). These conditions were responsible for around 80,000 and 50,000 fatalities, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organisation-WHO has announced that the Mpox upsurge continues to meet the criteria of a public health emergency of international concern set forth in the International Health Regulations (IHR). According to a statement released on Thursday, this declaration follows the third meeting of …
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Health scholar explains why that leaves healthcare in Africa on brink of crisis INTERVIEW | U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that the U.S. will leave the World Health Organisation. And a 90-day freeze has been placed on money distributed by the US Agency for International Development (USAid) pending a …
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It is also the first clinical trial of the vaccine during an outbreak Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners on Feb.03 launched a first-ever clinical efficacy trial for a vaccine from Ebola from the Sudan species …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & XINHUA | The World Health Organization ( WHO) is sending an additional $2 million to help Uganda tackle the Sudan Ebola Virus Disease outbreak that was confirmed on January 30. “To further support Uganda‘s response to the Ebola outbreak, I am releasing an additional $2 …
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Why Health Minister Aceng is ‘quiet’ on numbers COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda is in the midst of yet another episode of the hemorrhagic fever Ebola following a Jan.30 announcement by Dr. Diana Atwine, the Ministry of Health’s Permanent Secretary. In a hastily arranged press conference in the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed that scientists are yet to identify how the Ugandan health worker who succumbed to the Sudan virus disease got infected. Speaking at a meeting on Thursday, Otim Patrick Ramadan, a Health Emergency Officer at the World Health Organisation …
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Goma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organization said on Friday that the recent surge in violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has led to significant loss of life and trauma with over 3,082 injuries recorded in 31 health facilities in North Kivu alone. According …
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