Kampala, Uganda | URN | The World Health Organization’s decision to remove Uganda from its list of countries facing severe health worker shortages has attracted mixed reactions, with stakeholders divided over the opportunities and risks that come with exporting Ugandan health professionals. The WHO’s Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, …
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CEPI is now pressing for US$2.5 billion in new funding for its 100 Days Mission, which aims to have vaccines ready within 100 days of identifying a future pathogen NEWS ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | As the Ebola outbreak spreads unabated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), …
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Geneva, Switzerland | URN | The World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned that people living with noncommunicable diseases face a heightened risk of preventable harm while receiving healthcare. Dr Tedros says a new WHO analysis estimates that about one in six people with noncommunicable diseases experience …
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Geneva, Switzerland | URN | The World Health Organisation says the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is showing encouraging signs of slowing in some areas, but continues to grow and kill, with cases rising sharply in North Kivu. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says transmission is …
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NEWS ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | On 20th August last month, the world marked a discovery that changed the course of public health. In 1897, the British physician Sir Ronald Ross, working in India, proved that female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit the parasite that causes malaria in humans. It was …
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The World Health Organisation estimates that more than one billion people globally live with a mental health condition NEWS ANALYSIS | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | The tendency to link mental illness to violent crime is reinforcing stigma and preventing many Ugandans from seeking help, mental health specialists have warned. …
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Donation adds to U.S.-backed efforts to strengthen Uganda’s Ebola preparedness and response Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The United States has delivered an experimental antibody treatment for Ebola to Uganda as the country strengthens its preparedness against another possible cross-border spread of the disease from the Democratic …
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But the virus is still advancing next door in DRC Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda finally got the Ebola declaration it had effectively claimed for itself a month earlier. On Thursday, Aug. 27, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | Uganda has been re-declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization after completing the required 42-day period without recording a new confirmed case. The declaration was made on Wednesday by Dr Kasonde Mwinga, the WHO Representative in Uganda, almost a month after the Ministry of Health …
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Uganda detected poliovirus in May 2024, prompting health authorities to strengthen surveillance and outbreak response activities Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda and four other African countries have been cleared of recent polio outbreaks after independent assessments found no evidence that the virus is still spreading. The …
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