Uganda's recent decision to increase cigarette taxes appears to have anticipated global health trends, coming just weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) officially launched its bold "3 by ...

The World Health Organization director for Africa said Uganda has started a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola, for which there is currently no approved vaccine.

Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month.

The country has faced multiple outbreaks and, in doing so, has built a resilient health system capable of detecting and containing outbreaks rapidly. With active support from the World Health ...

UGANDA: UGANDA’S total number of people living with HIV has surpassed 1.5 million, according to the latest 2024 estimates ...

The World Health Organization will send an initial allocation of $1 million from a contingency fund to support Uganda’s response, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director-general, said in a ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was releasing an additional $2 million to support Uganda's response to its Ebola outbreak, which ...

Malaria caused 597,000 deaths worldwide in 2023, with children under 5 accounting for 76 percent of all malaria deaths in the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Burundi as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it ...

KAMPALA, Uganda, June 24, 2025/APO Group/ -- In 2005, a young man from northern Uganda walked into the offices of the World Health Organization (W Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...