Uganda: 30,000 at risk as TASO closes treatment centers
TASO says the process of phasing out outreach centres started in 2011. An estimated 30,000 HIV/AIDS patients are at risk following the closure of The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) outreach centres countrywide. The outreach centres have been offering medicines in addition to counselling, psychosocial support and food. The TASO executive director, More...
HIV workplace policy launched in Uganda
The government yesterday launched an HIV/Aids workplace policy in a bid to promote freedom from stigma and non-discrimination for all employees. The policy spearheaded by the Ministry of East African Affairs, More...
Cut in Uganda’s Health Budget Alarms AIDS Activists
Women wait with their babies to be tested for HIV at a hospital in Bududa, eastern Uganda, September 27, 2011. KAMPALA – Uganda is at the beginning of a months-long budgeting process for the country’s next More...
Rare feat for Kenya’s public hospital
Pungent smell and rude nurses mistreating mothers in labour are the things easily associated with a maternity wing of any public hospital in the country. Poor service delivery and poor management are some of the More...
Makerere invents pregnancy machine
The gadget which can scan a pregnant woman’s womb Makerere University students have invented a hand-held gadget that can be used to scan a pregnant woman’s womb and detect problems such as ectopic pregnancy More...
New technology to be used in Rwanda TB prevalence survey
A Digital Chest X-ray machine, which communicates directly with the central level from anywhere in Rwanda, will be used for the TB Prevalence survey. According to Engineer Jules Kamugunga, the Data Manager in the More...
Israel heart specialists to support Zanzibar
Zanzibar probably has the highest number of children with heart complications, health expert in Israel has said. Dr Alia Kapusta of the Edith Wolfson hospital in Israel said at a meeting with the visiting Zanzibar More...
Tanzanian nursing students pass counterfeit documents
A large number of nursing students have been accused of parading fake documents in order to enroll in nursing colleges. The anomaly has tainted the nursing profession putting the medical fraternity under a dark More...
TFDA confirms ban on Slimming tea from United States
Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority (TFDA) Slimming Tea products of 21st Century, imported from United States of America still circulating in pharmacy and supermarkets in Dar es Salaam has long been banned by Tanzania More...
Shortage of toilets in Tanzania costs lives
The shortage of toilets costs Tanzania colossal 46m US dollars (about 73.6m/-) annually. To eliminate the problem the nation needs approximately million drop holes or latrines. The existing toilets are in poor condition. According More...
