Dr Sabin Nsanzimana, the Rwandan Minister for Health said on Thursday, that the country had recorded seven new cases of the highly infectious disease bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 36. The total of deaths has risen to 11 cases.
The ministry has issued five key guidelines to school heads aimed at preventing the spread of Mpox. These measures echo those previously implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.
While Uganda’s first cases were imported from the neighboring DR Congo into the Kasese district, Kagirita says they are seeing high numbers from the fishing communities and worse they are seeing ladies present with serious genital attacks with many developing big lesions that take a long to clear.
Dr. Nandy, who previously held a similar position in the Islamic Republic of Iran, presented his credentials to John Mulimba, Uganda’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, during a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kampala on Tuesday.
Midwives play a crucial role in providing emotional, physical, and medical support to expectant mothers, ensuring safe and healthy childbirth. However, the role has traditionally been viewed as a female profession.
During these vigils, which happen twice every year in September when the global safe abortion day is marked and in December during the 16 days of activism the community is asked to compile names of girls who succumbed to maternal health complications.
While releasing findings of their three years research in the two regions on Friday, the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) revealed women and girls in Karamoja still use old and rudimentary options of secluding themselves and seating on heaps of soil during their monthly period.
Dr Diana Atwine the Permanent Secretary in Uganda’s Ministry of Health called for urgent integration of innovations geared towards solving AMR noting that countries should quickly turn these speeches into action.
Sekajja who reports going through an initiation procedure to access natural spirits in order to obtain secret healing knowledge during his research says genuine healers don’t become at will but go through a thorough apprenticeship that guides them on acceptable practice.
According to Dr. Charles Olaro, the Director of Curative Services in the Ministry of Health, the same group of people who will receive this vaccine in the current campaign will get another jab of a vaccine component known as Mvabea as a second dose starting on the 23rd of November 2024.
In 2022, there were 27,133 trials taking place in the world’s 86 rich countries compared to 24,791 in 131 poor countries. However, there have been concerns that developing countries have been targeted for inclusion in clinical trials, only for the resulting data to be used in getting health interventions authorized in high-income countries, sidelining the participating low-income countries.
Aceng says part of the problem is with detection as many Ugandans are still unaware of where to go to do basic screening and only turn up very late and many times with advanced stage disease.
Speaking at the launch, the WHO Director- General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for collaboration between countries and organizations to invest strategically in life-saving innovations.
When he spoke to URN on Monday, Oringa had just returned from another futile journey, this time to Jinja, having got an alert via telephone that his child had been found. Before that he had been to a several of places within Kampala following police alerts of missing children who had been found.
Speaking to journalists at a press conference on Monday, Dr. Grace Nambatya, the Director National Chemotherapeutic Research Institute, said after assessing efficacy of traditional medicine, they only offer innovators a document but almost all of them don’t proceed to clinical trials.
Lumu who is also the president of the Diabetes Association of Uganda says they are seeing an increase in the number of children presenting with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and yet when they turn up to hospital they are wrongly treated for malaria and diarrheal diseases. Worse, he says for some who fail to respond to treatment, parents resort to using witchcraft.
“Antimicrobial resistance threatens a century of medical progress and could return us to the pre-antibiotic era, where infections that are treatable today could become a death sentence,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, who will address the high-level meeting on AMR. “This is a threat for all countries at all income levels, which is why a strong, accelerated and well-coordinated global response is needed urgently.”
The injection is administered in two initial doses four weeks apart, followed by one dose every eight weeks. Cabotegravir offers a promising alternative to daily oral PrEP, simplifying prevention efforts for those at risk.
Patrick Okello the Commissioner incharge of refugees at the OPM acknowledges that urban refugees are vulnerable and notes that so far, the government is promoting peaceful coexistence between them and the host community.
According to a notice seen by URN, hospitals were directed to amend their PAYE returns to include the part-time specialists but sources expressed concern that this is only another case of double taxation as many of the specialists are moonlighting, already employed by government and are already remitting the tax.
