ebola

President Yoweri Museveni has congratulated Dr. Misaki Wayengera, a Researcher at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, for his efforts in developing a rapid test kit to diagnose the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses. “I want to…

Representatives from the Military, Police, Prisons, civilian components and other stakeholders from all the six East Africa Community (EAC) partner states are meeting at Silver Springs Hotel in Kampala to discuss modalities of conducting…

The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has asked the media to highlight the potential benefits for Uganda in hosting the forthcoming Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC). While meeting over 50 media editors and journalists at…

Unidentified attackers killed two Ebola health workers in eastern Congo over the weekend, the health ministry said, the latest in a string of assaults that have hampered efforts to stop the deadly spread of the virus. Local mistrust of…

President Yoweri Museveni yesterday received Sierra Leone President, Mr. Julius Maada Bio at State House, Entebbe. The Sierra Leone leader arrived in Uganda on a three-day state visit at the invitation of his host President Museveni. The…

The Ministry of Health has received the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who came to assess Uganda’s response to the current Ebola outbreak in Kasese District, Western Uganda last week.…

The inaugural Ebola vaccination for healthcare and frontline workers in the five high risk districts in Uganda, started on Monday, 5 November. The exercise seeks to forestall the spread of the Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) to Uganda…