September 2020

World Diabetes Day was coined together by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) in 2006, it is celebrated every year on November 14, co-sponsored by the World Health Organisation across…

Summary  On 10 December 2019, the Ministry of Health received an alert from the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) of a PCR confirmed case of Yellow fever from Buliisa District, Mid-Eastern Uganda. During January and February 2020,…

Introduction On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern (1). Uganda reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 21 (2), the outbreak proceeded in…