The hassle of registering a birth in Uganda Robert Offiti, a Regional Manager at HEPS-Uganda, a non-profit that is currently championing the scaling up of birth registration under the Voices progamme says it is important for parents to take birth registration seriously....

Polio outbreak linked to strain from Somalia says WHO expert Health minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng says “We need to get rid of polio from the world and Ugandans need to work very hard for this to happen.”...

Kigezi crumbles under the weight of high TB cases According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 91, 000 contract TB in Uganda every year, translating to about 240 people daily...

Snakebites: Life-saving facts Did you know that one person dies every four minutes from snakebite? What should you do if you get bitten? https://www.who.int/podcasts/episode/science-in-5/episode–125—snakebites–life-saving-facts Alarm over rising antibiotic...

Experts blame massage parlors for fueling new HIV infections in Kampala  Up to 2.2% of HIV tests done in health facilities in Kampala turned out positive for the virus, officials at the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) have revealed. https://www.independent.co.ug/society/health/...