Reducing teenage pregnancies Uganda faces a significant public health challenge with its high rates of teenage pregnancy. According to the Ministry of Health, approximately 24% of adolescent girls aged 15-19 become pregnant or have already given birth....

Uganda to vaccinate over 10,000 health workers against Ebola The government is set to vaccinate over 10,000 high-risk health workers against Ebola starting in May 2024. https://www.independent.co.ug/uganda-to-vaccinate-over-10000-health-workers-against-ebola/ More than a billion...

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...