Stories :: User: Flavia Nassaka :: Accepted date: May 2023

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• Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act Raises Concerns for HIV Response, Global Bodies Warn

  30 May 2023, 08:18 Comments 206 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  In a joint statement, signed by Peter Sands, the Executive Director of the Global Fund, Winnie Byanyima, the head of UNAIDS, and Ambassador John Nkengasong, the US Global AIDS Coordinator, the organizations expressed concerns that the law will impede health education and outreach efforts critical for ending AIDS as a public health threat.

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• Study Finds Very Low Fertility Awareness among Men, Women of Reproductive Age

  29 May 2023, 14:28 Comments 255 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  Releasing findings of the study, Dr Simon Peter Kibira who led the team said they surveyed both women and men aged between 15 to 49 years in Buyende, Mbale, and Mukono districts, and the majority couldn’t properly describe their menstrual cycle.

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• MoH Struggling with Old Ambulances Despite Developing Standards

  24 May 2023, 17:36 Comments 383 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  Dr. John Baptist Waniaye the Commissioner of Emergency Medical Services in the Ministry said that they have only 146 ambulances that comply with the standards approved in September 2021.

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• World May Not Hit Malnutrition Targets in 2030-Report

  24 May 2023, 12:37 Comments 301 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  The findings which were released on Wednesday are based on 2022 data which shows that about one-quarter of countries cannot assess their progress in achieving targets for key malnutrition indicators.

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• New Study Evaluates Antibiotic Combinations for Newborn Babies with Sepsis

  22 May 2023, 15:47 Comments 257 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  According to a statement released on Monday, this trial will rank the safety and efficacy of three new combinations of older antibiotics fosfomycin-amikacin, flomoxef-amikacin, and flomoxef-fosfomycin against the current standard of care. It will also assess and validate the doses of two antibiotics (fosfomycin and flomoxef) for use in newborns.

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• Doctors At Mulago Referral Hospital Urge Men To Seek Tetanus Vaccination

  18 May 2023, 22:12 Comments 481 Views Kampala Road, Nairobi, Kenya Health Updates

  Speaking to URN in interview, Sr Deborah Mawanda, the In-charge of Immunisation at the hospital said, to be on a safe side individuals need to take a Tetanus and Diphtheria vaccine five times in a life time but recently even when they organize medical camps only females tend to turn-up for the jab.

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• IRC Warns of Alarming Increase in Acute Malnutrition Cases in Refugee Settlements Top story

  18 May 2023, 08:25 Comments 762 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  In 2021, approximately 6,300 cases of acute malnutrition were treated, a number that soared to over 9,300 in 2022, with children and women constituting the majority of affected individuals.

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• WHO Calls for Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence for Health

  17 May 2023, 09:53 Comments 322 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  In a statement released on Tuesday evening, the organization said AI generated large language model tools (LLMs) including platforms such as ChatGPT, Bard, Bert and many others that imitate understanding, processing, and producing human communication have generated significant excitement around the potential to support people’s health needs.

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• MOH Still Non-Committal on Medical Interns Deployment

  16 May 2023, 16:39 Comments 446 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  Dr. Diana Atwine, the Permanent Secretary of the MOH, revealed in an interview with URN on Tuesday that a cabinet meeting had been held on Monday to discuss the payment issues concerning medical interns, Senior House Officers, and Senior Doctors, who have been on strike.

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• Living Goods Recounts 15-year Journey of Supporting VHTs, asks Gov’t to Pay Them

  16 May 2023, 12:43 Comments 426 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  Chuck Slaughter, the founder of the NGO says the average cost for delivering service per person per year cost them just US$ 3, which yields an equivalent of US$ 10 in gain.

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• WHO Discourages Use of Non-Sugar Sweeteners for Weight Control, Disease Prevention

  15 May 2023, 16:25 Comments 605 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  "Replacing free sugars with NSS does not help with weight control in the long term. People need to consider other ways to reduce free sugars intake, such as consuming food with naturally occurring sugars, like fruit, or unsweetened food and beverages,” says Francesco Branca, WHO Director for Nutrition and Food Safety.

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• WHO Asks Countries to Halve Anemia Prevalence by 2030

  13 May 2023, 10:31 Comments 394 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  Anaemia remains a serious global public health problem, affecting 571 million women and 269 million young children worldwide, according to data by the organization.

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• Circulating Flu-like Illness Not COVID-19 Related- MoH

  13 May 2023, 07:14 Comments 368 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  Refuting claims made on social media and several media reports that people are being hospitalized with a strange flu-like illness, Dr Henry Mwebesa the Director General of Health Services said in a statement on Friday that though the viral infection is commonly affecting children below five years of age and the elderly, they haven’t had an increase in hospitalization due to the on-going influenza.

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• 18 Million Ugandans Battling Hypertension-Uganda Heart Institute

  12 May 2023, 16:44 Comments 513 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  Speaking at a media session held on Friday a head of the World Hypertension day to be marked next week, Dr James Kayima, a Consultant Cardiologist at the Institute says their most recent estimates show that between 25% and 30% of Ugandans are battling high blood pressure.

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• Experts Weigh in on Hunger in the 'Food Basket'

  11 May 2023, 16:59 Comments 569 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  According to Fred Muhumuza, an Economist projects to boost food availability have come over the years but recommendations are never adopted as implementers resort to doing awareness campaigns and designing brochures and T-shirts.

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• EU Marks Europe Day, Speaks Against the Anti-gay Bill

  10 May 2023, 11:52 Comments 564 Views Kampala, Uganda Human rights Updates

  While the bill was initially passed in March, calling for the death penalty and long jail terms among other tough penalties, President Museveni had asked parliament to tone down the legislation after it attracted condemnation among human rights activists and donors.

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• Striking Won’t Give You Money, Gov’t Tells New Group of Striking Doctors

  9 May 2023, 16:06 Comments 468 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  The doctors told a press Conference held in Mulago this morning that their strike would start at 11 pm. Dr Joy Kimera, a Pediatrician who spoke on their behalf says while associate consultants supervise interns in hospitals, their salaries were not enhanced and there’s no clear process through which one gets promoted to the position.

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• Global Progress in Tackling Maternal and Newborn Deaths Stalls

  9 May 2023, 13:15 Comments 244 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  The report shows that over 4.5 million women and babies die every year during pregnancy, childbirth or the first weeks after birth which is equivalent to 1 death happening every 7 seconds, mostly from preventable or treatable causes if proper care was available.

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• New Approach to Treating Postpartum Bleeding Could Revolutionize Maternal Health Globally

  9 May 2023, 12:41 Comments 290 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), defined as the loss of more than 500 mL of blood within 24 hours after birth, is a leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide, affecting an estimated 14 million women each year and resulting in around 70,000 deaths, mostly in low- and middle-income countries, equivalent to one death every 6 minutes.

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• COVID-19 Nolonger a Global Health Emergency- WHO Top story

  5 May 2023, 19:54 Comments 924 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  According to a statement released on Friday, during the session committee members highlighted the decreasing trend in COVID-19 deaths, the decline in COVID-19 related hospitalizations and intensive care unit admissions, and the high levels of population immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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