The ones we’ve lost: Why more children are taking their lives A surge in mental health issues, academic stress, and the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown, which kept Ugandan schools closed for the longest period of time in the world, are having a devastating effect on learners...

Health practitioners want increased contraceptives to use awareness in varsities Most female students at institutions of higher learning are reportedly sexually active but many cannot access better use of preventive measures against unwanted pregnancies...

Ebola: Don’t repeat COVID mistakes With news of Uganda announcing a three-week lockdown in two districts and the first Ebola death in Kampala — the capital city of over 3 million living in close proximity — it’s time the world wakes up to the threat of this latest outbreak....

India vaccine maker destroys 100 million doses of expired Covid jab Indian vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) has said it had to dump 100 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine after they expired.  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-63324548 Newborn mortality hopes...

EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE: WHAT EVERYONE MUST KNOW AND DO Pregnant women who get acute Ebola and recover from the disease may still carry the virus in breastmilk, or in pregnancy-related fluids and tissues. This poses a risk of transmission to the baby they carry, and to others. Women who...