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  Kampala, Uganda | URN | Many Ugandans suffering from kidney disease are struggling to afford dialysis, with Kiruddu National Referral Hospital warning that inadequate funding for consumables is affecting the frequency of treatment offered to patients. The hospital requires Shs48.967 billion annually to meet its dialysis consumables needs but …

  Since 2000, malaria-related deaths have fallen by more than 50%, reflecting sustained investments in prevention, diagnosis and treatment   Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | Whenever fever strikes nine-year-old Joshua Ekimwere in his rural Ogaramio village, getting help has not always been easy. For his grandmother, Akurut Dinah Loy, a …

    Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT |   C-Care Uganda and DFCU Bank are strengthening access to quality healthcare through Blue Care Insurance, a health insurance solution designed to make comprehensive medical cover more accessible to individuals and families across Uganda. The partnership brings together DFCU Bank’s financial services reach and …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Uganda is receiving calls for tougher regulation of food marketing around schools after research indicated that 86 percent of outdoor advertisements within 250 metres of selected primary and secondary schools promoted unhealthy food choices. At a youth seminar conducted at Kyambogo University in Kampala Friday …

  The latest World Health Organisation figures estimate that Africa accounted for 94% of malaria cases and 95% of deaths globally in 2024,   Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  When nine-year-old James Ssemambo developed severe malaria in Kitosi, a village located in Koome Sub County in Mukono district in …

  SPECIAL REPORT |  Daniel Dramile, a psychiatric nurse at Oli Health Centre in Arua City, Uganda, was part of a small team who staffed the facility’s Ebola isolation centre during the country’s recent Ebola outbreak in 2026. Dramile emphasizes the importance of mental health during disease outbreak response, especially within …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Benard Feni, founder and chief executive of Euro Gold Refinery Uganda Ltd, was among 16 members inaugurated onto the Malaria Free Uganda Board of Directors as the organisation prepares to support the country’s malaria elimination efforts. The inauguration, presided over by Health Minister Chris …

    One of the most dangerous misconceptions about breast cancer is that it must hurt, or that there must be a lump   COMMENT | DR ALEESHA ADATIA | Every October, the world is painted pink. The pink ribbon has done a phenomenal job of bringing breast cancer into …

      The science and suspicion behind Uganda’s travel restrictions   SPECIAL REPORT | Uganda’s Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak was officially declared over in August. Yet the United States and Canada continue to enforce restrictions affecting travellers linked to Uganda. The measures raise questions about public-health risk, economic costs and the …

  Africa, Western Asia saw decline in every wave since 2018   NEWS ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Poor access to healthcare, limited local influence over research priorities, and an unequal distribution of scientific benefits are undermining public confidence in science, experts warn, following the release of a global trust survey. …