Health

The Speaker of the Parliament Rt Hon.Rebecca Kadaga has decried the ever widening income gap and the lack of commitment by the international community to ensure dignity and equal rights of men and women. While addressing the 136th Inter Parliamentary Union Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh yesterday, Hon. Kadaga said that […]

For the first time ever, the World Health Organization has published a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health. The move is part of the agency’s efforts to address growing global resistance to antimicrobial medicines. According to UN Radio, Christian Lindmeier, the WHO […]

By Sam Sebuliba The National Drugs Authority is set to ban all pharmacies in Uganda that do not have certificates showing drugs incinerated in a space of one year. The move comes at the time when the authority is battling with the vice of selling expired drugs that has persisted in Uganda. […]

By Shamim Nateebwa The HIV situation in Uganda calls for renewed and urgent action. This is after a new study revealed that every single hour, 2 young women get infected with HIV in Uganda which puts the prevalence of HIV among adolescent girls at 9.1% compared to the national prevalence […]