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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu district officially launched the mass immunization against Measles, Rubella and Polio, ahead of the nationwide campaign that started today. The campaign, to be conducted in schools for the first three days and in communities for the last two days, targets all children younger …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 20% of babies supposed to be benefiting from routine immunization are not getting the vaccine. This was revealed by Dr Alfred Driwale the Programme Manager Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization in the Ministry of Health in an interview with Uganda Radio Network. Driwale …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Kotido district has committed to achieving 100 per cent immunization coverage for measles, Rubella and polio. The district is targeting to immunize an estimated 87, 419 children aged between 9 months and 14 years across five sub counties and four divisions. The commitment was …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | African countries have been urged to strengthen routine immunization and surveillance measures to detect polio outbreaks. The call was made on Wednesday by the World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti in Brazzaville, Congo, as Africa marked a major milestone …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is to roll out a mass immunization campaign for polio and measles in schools. The campaign will cover all children between nine months and 15 years of age. The five-day campaign is scheduled to take place from 18th to 22 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Global immunization experts attending the biannual Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group (RITAG) meeting in Congo Brazzaville on Jan.23 noted that over the past five years, immunization coverage in sub-Saharan Africa has stagnated at 72%, exposing populations to vaccine-preventable diseases and outbreaks. They said there was …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 400,000 children under the age of five years were not immunized in the last three years. This is according to the Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization-UNEPI has revealed. Records from the January 2015 to October 2018 indicate that over 100,000 children have …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to 5.7million children under the age of five are expected to be immunized in a three-day house-to-house polio preventive vaccination campaign in 73 high risk districts of Uganda. According to a Ministry of Health statement, the objective of the September 9-11 campaign is to vaccinate all children …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Ministry of Health has confirmed there is an active outbreak of Measles in Kampala and Wakiso Districts. All the five divisions of Kampala, as well as several suburbs in Wakiso District are affected. According to a statement released Tuesday, the Ministry of Health surveillance …

By Nicole Namubiru The Ministry of Health has launched a ‘house to house’ polio immunization campaign for all children under the age of five. The campaign will be run with the support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and other stake holders. This …