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Ministry of Health
1 October 2026, 1:14 pm
Uganda releases preliminary 2025 HIV impact assessment results
By Ronald Ssemagonja The Minister of Health, Dr Chris Baryomunsi, and the United States representative, Mikael Cleverley, have released the preliminary results of the 2025 Uganda Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment (UPHIA). The results were released at the Uganda Media Centre…
12 December 2025, 10:49 am
Intern doctors threaten to suspend emergency services over unpaid allowances
By Ronald Ssemagonja The standoff between intern medical doctors and the Ministry of Health has escalated after the Federation of Uganda Medical Interns threatened to withdraw all emergency services across the 74 hospitals where they are stationed. The warning was…
22 November 2025, 10:51 am
Doctors warn of rising childhood myopia as Uganda battles preventable eye diseas…
By Ronald Ssemagonja Health experts have warned that the world could face a major public health crisis by 2050, with projections indicating that at least 50 per cent of the global population may be short-sighted. Dr Franklin Wasswa, an oculist…
27 October 2025, 10:58 am
UMA to sue health ministry over unpaid allowances as Museveni hosts Indians for…
By Ronald Ssemagonja The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) leadership, together with national representatives of Senior House Officers (SHOs), on Sunday held a special press briefing in Kampala to address the ongoing dispute over unpaid allowances for medical interns and SHOs…
3 February 2025, 6:49 pm
Uganda’s largest pharmaceutical and healthcare exhibition begins next week
By Ronald Ssemagonja The 4th edition of Uganda’s largest pharmaceutical and healthcare international exhibition will take place from 13th to 15th February 2025 at the Lugogo UMA Show Grounds in Kampala. Speaking to journalists at the Uganda Media Centre, the…
30 January 2025, 5:48 pm
Sudan Ebola disease confirmed in Uganda, one person declared dead
By Ronald Ssemagonja The Ministry of Health has confirmed an outbreak of Sudan Ebola Virus Disease in Kampala following laboratory confirmation from three national reference laboratories: the Central Public Health Laboratory in Kampala, the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe,…
20 November 2024, 11:43 am
Ugandans tasked to embrace immunisation programmes in their communities
By Ronald Ssemagonja Minister of Health, Hon. Jane Ruth Aceng, speaking to participants at Serena Hotel in Kampala during the celebrations of 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), said the story of Uganda’s immunisation efforts is one…