Dr Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, WHO Representative to Uganda, welcomed the country's progress in key healthcare areas.
Prior to 2014, the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease on record, caused by Sudan ebolavirus, resulted in 425 cases and 224 deaths in Uganda. There are several reasons for the scope and ...
Uganda has registered more than 50 deaths ... who need them most. The first Ebola outbreak killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa. First transmitted to people from wild animals like forest ...
Download logo The Ugandan Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), and its partners carried out ...
A meeting convened by WHO in Africa in February, 2024, aimed to develop a protocol for assessing new treatments for filovirus diseases during outbreaks. Esther Nakkazi reports.
In the heart of Mount Elgon National Park in Kenya lies a natural wonder with a dark and deadly secret - the Kitum Cave. This ...
In this explainer, we lay out why the disease, which can kill up to 50 percent of patients who progress to severe symptoms, ...
In 2018, there was another ebola outbreak in the African continent ... When the disease spread to neighbouring Uganda in 2019 ...
“Yellow fever falls in the same group [as] Ebola. Those are dangerous diseases spread by mosquitoes; one case constitutes an outbreak,” Dr Ombeva Malande, a vaccinologist at the Uganda’s ...
Press Release - To strengthen regional cross-border Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) readiness during public health emergencies, Africa CDC, UNICEF, IFRC, and WHO (the Collective ...