Smoking’s effects on the immune system can last years, study finds Smoking tobacco is so harmful to the body that it changes a person’s immune system, leaving them vulnerable to more disease and infection even years after they’ve quit, a new study found....

Is Community-Led Monitoring a Game Changer in Uganda’s HIV Response? Implemented across 80 districts in Uganda today, Community Led Monitoring is a unique HIV/TB quality improvement approach that puts people living with and at high risk of HIV/TB who are the end service users at the...

For the third straight year, HEPS-Uganda’s key area of focus in 2024 will be Global Health Security. The focus on Global Health Security comes at a time when Uganda and the whole world continue to recover from the effects of Covid-19 pandemic. According to Kenneth Mwehonge, the...

World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on everybody, including leaders and communities, to unite and act to address the inequalities that drive neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and to make bold, sustainable investments to free the estimated 1.62 billion people, in the world’s...

New drug to reduce malaria rates among pregnant women with HIV One million women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are also infected with malaria during pregnancy every year. https://nation.africa/kenya/health/new-drug-to-reduce-malaria-rates-among-pregnant-women-with-hiv-4508176...