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  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Doctors are urging the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners’ Council to put in place a mechanism or guidelines that can enable them to advertise their services. Dr Fredrick Nelson Nakwagala, a Senior Health Researcher and head of the Directorate of Medicine at Mulago …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT | The number of people testing positive for malaria is going down, far away from the surge that was experienced with the onset of rains in June. The disease had affected half of the country by August with 65 districts reporting increased hospital admissions and …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  The World Health Organization has accused Tanzania of failing to provide information on suspected cases of Ebola in the country, potentially styming efforts to curb the spread of the deadly virus. The WHO said it had learned on September 10 of a suspected case of …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bukomansimbi district local government leaders have rejected a new Ambulance donated to them by the Korean government citing poor specifications. The government received a grant worth 1.2 billion Shillings from the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare-KOFIH in June this year, to put in place …

Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP |  A Zimbabwean doctors’ union leader whose suspected kidnapping sparked protests by medics in the capital Harare has been found alive, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. Peter Magombeyi had been missing since Saturday night, with his Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) saying he was taken because …

Scientists finally identify its genetic components | THE INDEPENDENT | For the first time, scientists have pinpointed regions of human DNA that closely relate to whether people are right- or left-handed. They also linked these regions to language-related features in the brain. Previously, scientists knew that genes were responsible for …

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP |  Detained former DR Congo health minister Oly Ilunga has been accused of embezzling $4.3 million of public funds raised to tackle the Ebola epidemic, his defence counsel said Sunday while insisting on his innocence. “Police accuse him of having siphoned off a total of …

Kenya becomes third country to adopt world’s first malaria vaccine Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Kenya on Friday became the third country to start routinely innoculating infants against malaria, using the world’s first vaccine to combat a disease that kills 800 children globally every day. The vaccine — RTS,S — …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | International Air Ambulance has today concluded a highly successful annual Health Service Providers (HSP) workshop, where strategies to strengthen their insurance practices in the next one year were laid out. Over 400 Health Service Providers (HSP) gathered at hotel Africana on Friday to discuss …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts and players in the health sector are asking the government to do away with its free healthcare for all policy as the as Uganda moves to come up with the National Health Insurance scheme. Grace Kiwanuka, the Executive Director of Uganda Healthcare Federation …