"The new practice means that... men will have to be referred for fertility treatment before the age of 55," Danske Regioner, the entity that manages the public healthcare system, said in a statement.
Since being declared in mid-May, the latest bout of the viral haemorrhagic fever has surpassed a 2018-2020 outbreak to become the deadliest in the vast central African country's history.
The urgent call was made during a press briefing held at the Interns’ Hall of Kabale Regional Referral Hospital in Kabale Municipality. The briefing served as a precursor to the fourth Annual Kigezi Regional Health Sector Joint Performance Review Mission (JRM).
The move comes amid a shortage of specialists trained to care for critically ill newborns, particularly premature babies and those born with breathing complications across the country.
Pakistan’s 79th Independence Day was celebrated on August 14, 2026. However, the Pakistani community living in Lira organised its belated celebration on August 30, 2026.
“I want to caution you, my friends of Rotary Club of Mengo, as you run today to fight this deadly disease, don’t just focus on fundraising for treatment. Focus on prevention. 70 percent of cancers can be prevented if we change our lifestyle,” Muyingo said.
“We work with several Somali doctors. They’re under Danab, and we work well with them. It’s been good working with them because when the civilians come and they see a familiar face, someone from home, it enables us to also be able to handle them with ease," Lt. Dr. Namagga stated during the interview.
According to the chairman of the Rotary Cancer Run 2026, Meddie Lutaaya, they had prepared 100,000 kits for participants, but all were sold out.
Muvawala said the $65 million (about sh245 billion) machines are expected in the country within the next three months.
Dr Mamawi Godfrey Ambayo, the district production officer, revealed that only 1,000 of the 10,000 dogs in the district had been vaccinated due to a shortage of vaccines, raising concern about the spread of rabies.
Mwanje credited the achievement to public trust and the team’s transparency and expressed sincere gratitude to the public.
Martin Muzale (Buzaya County) said communities were continuing to lose people to cancer, HIV and other illnesses while some constituencies were still waiting for promised ambulances. “People are dying,” the MP said. “Those who are sick of cancer, those who are sick of HIV and many other diseases.”
Ogwang, who is also the Member of Parliament for Ngariam County in Katakwi district, said nursing and midwifery are professions that demand commitment, accuracy and responsibility because mistakes can have serious consequences for patients.
The new facility, according to Omara, is therefore intended not simply as a sanitation improvement but as an intervention to reduce the amount of learning lost by girls because they cannot comfortably manage menstruation at school.
Seif was 16 when he fell from a mango tree and fractured his jaw. On Tanzania's remote Pemba Island, the hospital could do little. The jaw slowly locked shut; eating became a struggle, then speech. The once-active teenager withdrew into silence.
“It was (the visit) an initiative from the UPDF leadership so that we bring out our colleagues from Zimbabwe to pick up a few lessons on what it means to be peaceful and stable,” he explained, adding that science, technology and innovation have been President Yoweri Museveni’s song that Uganda must move to the next level.
Ending stigma is therefore not a one-off campaign; it is a continuing national responsibility. Uganda has led before, and we can lead again by replacing fear with knowledge, judgement with empathy, silence with support and exclusion with solidarity. If we walk together, no Ugandan should have to face HIV alone.
The development is expected to ease tensions among medical graduates, who had raised concerns over a proposal to pay government-sponsored interns differently from their privately sponsored counterparts._
“If you listen to people's cries, it shows there is a problem in this facility. It was very bad that patients are charged between sh150000 and sh200000 for operation and sh60000 for ambulance services,” Namere said while at the health facility within Budaka Town Council. Complaining that the two officials lacked professional respect for their jobs, she ordered that, once apprehended, the officials should be handed over to Police and the Inspector General of Government (IGG) for statements and investigation.
Uganda must turn renewed global HIV commitments into urgent domestic action