The National HIV/AIDS prevalence stands at 4.7%, with an average of 6.3% among women and 3.3% among men and a total of 1.5 million people are living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda.
Priscilla Nambalirwa, a patient support coordinator at the foundation, said the tablets will help children continue learning while they are away from school for extended periods during treatment.
"We're still early to say that we're controlling the whole outbreak," Africa CDC official Wessam Mankoula told an online press briefing, noting that the outbreak "is still evolving."
Museveni was happy to note that the centre had treated/rehabilitated thousands of young people who were now participating in the country’s economic development.
With cancer cases surging to over 35,000 new cases annually, the UCI is frustrated over what it calls a chronically low and shrinking budget that is crippling cancer care in the country.
About 3,000 new cases of cancer among children and adolescents are diagnosed in Uganda each year, according to the World Health Organisation’s 2024 report. However, only about 30% of these children present at cancer treatment centres in the country.
Speaking after receiving the donation, Karara said AMDA was grateful for the support from JMS, describing the partnership as an important part of the association’s efforts to reach communities with essential services.
Baryomunsi urged health facility managers to strengthen supervision and ensure that every consignment of medicines received is properly recorded, stored and dispensed to patients according to established procedures.
Prevention must be Uganda’s first line of defence against cancer: evidence indicates that 37% of new cancer cases worldwide in 2022 were linked to preventable causes, including tobacco, alcohol, cancer-causing infections, unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, excess body weight, air pollution and occupational exposures.
Education authorities in Beni say they are coordinating with health officials to strengthen prevention measures, with Robert Kibonge, head of the Beni educational sub-division, saying officials had been asked to identify the areas most affected by Ebola while some partners had promised to provide additional prevention equipment to schools.
“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.
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._