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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  C-Care Uganda and Rotary Uganda have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to help boost community health in Uganda. This renewed agreement strengthens their highly successful collaboration, paving the way to expand essential healthcare services to communities across the nation. The organisations have already …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Reach A Hand Uganda commemorated World AIDS Day 2025 through an awareness campaign dubbed “i Know Kati” loosely translated as “I Know Now”. The campaign focussed on sensitizing young people, particularly ghetto youth, on the importance of testing to increase voluntary testing amidst debunking myths around …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s disability rights advocates have renewed their push for stronger social protection for children with disabilities, calling on government to introduce a National Child Disability Benefit, as the country prepares to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Mubende. The call was …

Napak, Uganda | Xinhua | At least 11 children have died from measles in Uganda’s semi-arid northeastern district of Napak since the outbreak was declared two weeks ago, the ministry of health said. In a situation update issued late on Thursday, the ministry reported a cumulative total of 74 cases …

Empowering Men to Take Charge of Their Health COMMENT | DR ALEESHA ADATIA |  November is drawing to a close, and just as October honours breast cancer awareness, this month serves as a powerful, personal call to action for men’s health, with prostate cancer centre stage. Prostate cancer is a …

Despite progress in Egypt, trachoma remains a public health challenge in 30 countries Geneva, Switzerland | THE INDEPENDENT | Egypt has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced, marking a historic milestone for the country and the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). It …

If fully implemented, the new network could mark a turning point in Africa’s long fight against poor-quality animal health products   Kampala, Uganda  | RONALD MUSOKE | The African Union and its global partners have taken a major step toward tightening oversight of veterinary medicines across the continent with the creation …

MANILA | Xinhua | The World Health Organization warned Tuesday that antimicrobial resistance is already causing a global health emergency, threatening to erase nearly a century of medical progress as common infections become increasingly challenging to treat. Saia Ma’u Piukala, the WHO regional director for the Western Pacific, said in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Stakeholders in the fight against malaria have made a clarion call to Members of Parliament to give precedence to malaria prevention in the next budgeting cycle. The call was made at a high-level advocacy engagement with MPs, on gender-responsive malaria and health services, on …

C-Care Uganda Marks World Prematurity Day with a Call for Healthy Beginnings and Hopeful Futures  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  C-Care Uganda is set to create awareness about the potential of their hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), which has become a lifeline for families with preterm infants. Focus will …