HEALTH

Island dwellers of Bwema in Buvuma district have appealed to the government to come to their rescue and construct for them pit latrines in order to save lives. They claim...

The EU's largest countries on Monday joined a stream of states halting their rollouts of AstraZeneca jabs over blood clot fears, as the World Health Organization and Europe's medicines watchdog...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has delayed the rollout of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines, citing safety concerns. The decision was communicated by the country's health ministry citing the suspension of...

The Ministry of Health has launched a new strategy to tackle the maternal and perinatal deaths in Uganda through focusing and implementing programs on key areas in the health system....

Mukono General Hospital is grappling with growing numbers of patients which have left medics and the facility overwhelmed. According to the Medical superintendent of the Hospital, Dr. Geoffrey Kasirye, the...

The leading opposition party in Tanzania has accused the ruling government of covering up the true extent of the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement issued on Friday, CHADEMA party's Secretary-General,...

A Catholic doctors lobby group in Kenya has advised church members not to accept the Covid-19 vaccine but instead practice steam therapy if they are sick. According to local media,...

Uganda's ministry of Health (MOH) has announced that the arrival of the initial batch of 864,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines will be on the 5th of March 2021 and...

A new study reveals evidence that early exposure to dirty air alters genes in a way that could lead to adult heart disease, among other ailments. The findings of this...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has asked authorities in Tanzania to start reporting COVID-19 cases and share data. I also call on In a statement, the WHO boss...