Young women prefer vaginal rings to a daily oral pills for HIV prevention  By the East African; Given the choice between a monthly vaginal ring and daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) a course of HIV drugs taken by HIV-negative people to protect them against HIV infection,...

Global Health Security is HEPS – Uganda’s main focus area in 2022. The focus on Global Health Security comes at a time when Uganda and the whole world continue to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects. According to Kenneth Mwehonge, the HEPS – Uganda...

Minister Kaducu tasks school heads to end the teenage marriage By Daily Monitor; The State Minister for Primary Education, Ms. Joyce Moriku Kaducu, has tasked all school heads and teachers at all levels to “fight hard” and end teenage and early pregnancies among school-going...

Covid booster efficacy wanes significantly by fourth month- US study By Daily Monitor; The efficacy of third doses of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines wanes substantially by the fourth month after administration, a new study by the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention...

Africa needs to raise vaccination rate to meet the target: report By the East African;  Africa needs to ramp up its Covid-19 vaccination rate six times to achieve the target of fully vaccinating 70 percent of its population by the end of June 2022....