Uganda’s Ministry of Health is at risk of losing critical funding from the Global Fund, one of the largest donors in the fight against HIV/AIDS, amid explosive allegations that ABBOTT Laboratories, a supplier of HIV test kits, is covertly financing influential
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS and wife to prominent opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye, has surprised many by publicly thanking Pre
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) across Uganda have issued a strong call to government to urgently invest in national research institutes and universities to develop better detection technologies, preservation techniques, and nutritional improvements.This comes at a time as the country g
Makerere University Hospital has officially launched the Olink Proteomics Platform, the first of its kind in East and Central Africa.The platform was launched on Thursday and attended by leading figures from academia, government, and the global health research community.The platform
The NRM Secretary General, Richard Todwong has received former Makerere University guild president, Lawrence Alionzi, commonly known as Dangote to the ruling NRM party.Alionzi on Monday formally joined NRM and also picked nomination forms from the party electoral commission to stand f
The World Wide Fund for Nature in collaboration with Uganda Wildlife Authority, the Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration (GVTC) and other partners have begun a new count of mountain gorillas in Bwindi, Uganda.At the same time, these partners will also carry out the first e
Private Secretary to President of Uganda for Youth, in Agriculture, Value addition, Export promotion Dr Kisanja Hillary Musoke (right) welcoming back some of the Science Students supported under Presidential Initiative on Science Development who had returned fro
The future may be getting brighter in terms of reducing the threat of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), infectious disease experts told Newsweek.With new treatments and maybe even a vaccine on the horizon, 2
Back in the 1990s, Uganda adopted several reforms. One of them was creation of semi-autonomous agencies. The architects of these (largely donor-driven) reforms promised enhanced efficiency and State capacity to deliver services by sidestepping bureaucracy in the mainstream ministries. Th
Four years ago, the coronavirus pandemic increased human reliance on technology which enabled virtual engagements. Research by the National Library of Medicine, a US-based biomedical informatics and the world's largest biomedical online library shows that the Covid-19 imposed restr
