"After the closure of USAID in the country — we normally think big and act fast — we started providing psychological first aid to former staff," Lucy Onen said.

EarthEnable, in nonprofit in Rwanda, installs sealed earthen floors, an affordable alternative to dirt floors, which contribute to the spread of respiratory and parasitic diseases.

In a small home in Uganda's capital, Jane Mwesige, a nurse with a hospice that has transformed African end-of-life care.

This study builds on the analysis on fiscal space for health in Uganda that was conducted by the World Bank in 2010. The ...

Experts have warned against simply throwing money and new equipment at disadvantaged communities to tackle the problem of ...

A new study by researchers at Makerere University School of Public Health has uncovered alarmingly high levels of vaccine wastage in Uganda's health facilities--posing serious risks to the efficiency ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has marked World Blood Donor Day 2025 with a renewed global appeal for increased voluntary blood donations, citing the urgent need to save the lives of mothers and ...

The Ministry of Health led the training in partnership with Africa CDC and other partners, including the World Health Organization Uganda Country Office (WHO-Uganda), United States Centers for ...

The ELMA Foundation, which focuses on children's health in Africa with offices in the US, South Africa and Uganda, has already recently stepped in with $2 million for the Global Measles and ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines require that for a country to be declared Ebola-free, it must spend 42 days (two 21-day incubation cycles of the virus) without any new cases reported.

With active support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners, this outbreak again demonstrated Uganda’s capacity to deal with such challenges. The latest Ebola disease outbreak ...