Malaria remains one of the most devastating infectious diseases, causing high morbidity and mortality especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In Uganda, malaria is…
Pepsodent Launches Talk To A Dentist Campaign
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Pepsodent launched the global campaign Now Everyone Can #TalkToADentist in honor of World Oral Health Day. The event took place yesterday at…
Preserving Nutrient Supplements for Children With Nodding Disease
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Early 2016, Jenifer Alaroker was transferred to Lapuda primary school located in Paicho Sub County in Gulu district. However, aside from teaching,…
Health Experts Urge Extensive Research Into Nodding Disease Syndrome
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Health experts from Mulago, Uganda’s National Referral Hospital and the University of Toronto, Canada have urged government to consider extensive research on…
NMS Supplements Helped my Son with Nodding Syndrome
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Around 2007, a strange disease; Nodding syndrome hit Northern Uganda. It ravaged children in a number of districts; killing many and leaving…
Fighting Drug Theft: The Story of delivery Clerk, Humphrey Kuyate
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For many years, the Ugandan government has been grappling with rising cases of theft of medicines in public health facilities. To address…
Government Decries Increased Anti Microbial Resistance To Drugs
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The permanent secretary at the ministry of Health, Dr. Diana Atwine has decried the increased Anti Microbial resistance to drugs. She made…
‘Smartcare App’ Facilitates Smart Medical Supplies System
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As part of the innovation to make customer relations friendlier, National Medical Stores has come up with the Smart Care, a set…
Digital Tracking Counters Diversion of Government Medicines
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With a blaring distress signal on and the blue top lights flashing, an ambulance rushed out of the gate at breakneck speed,…
WHO Urges Continued Surveillance As Uganda Is Declared Free of Ebola
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Uganda today declared the end of the Ebola disease outbreak caused by Sudan ebolavirus, less than four months after the first case…