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Executive summary Uganda has a high suicide rate of 19/100,000 and was ranked 17th for suicide as cause of death worldwide and 4th in Africa. We analysed surveillance data reported from all levels of health facilities into the Health…

Summary In 2017, Uganda Ministry of Health reported a human anthrax outbreak in Arua District. Subsequent epidemiologic investigations conducted confirmed animals as the source of the infection. We conducted an investigation to assess…

Summary On 23 May 2018, Bubulo East Member of Parliament reported a strange disease affecting children in Manafwa District in Parliament of Uganda. We investigated to determine the existence, scope, nature of the strange disease and…

Summary On 8 August 2018, there were media reports of sudden death of two young women who had locked themselves up in a metallic makeshift container in Malaba Township, To roro District which served as a restaurant in which both worked. We…

The 4th National Field Epidemiology Conference, 2018 The Ministry of Health, Uganda and Makerere University School of Public Health is organizing the 4th National Field Epidemiology Conference. It will be held on Friday 02 November,…

Volume 3 Issue 3 July-Sept 2018

After the declaration of the 10th EVD outbreak in Ituri and North Kivu Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo on 1st August 2018, the Uganda National Rapid Response Team (NRRT) has conducted rapid risk assessments in the high risk…

The Joint Annual Scientific Health (JASH) conference  organized by Makerere University College of Health in conjunction with Uganda National Association of Community  and Occupational Health (UNACOH), World Health Organization (WHO),…

Summary Intussusception is a common cause of small bowel obstruction in children under 2 years, characterized by colicky abdominal pain, vomiting, and bloody diarrhea. A social media report from a children’s clinic in Wakiso District…

Summary On 20-04-2018, 7 people were admitted with symptoms suggestive of cutaneous anthrax after handling meat from a dead cow, one of the four cows that died in a single kraal in Kween District, eastern Uganda. We investigated to;…