Ministry says Uganda free from Marburg

Uganda said Friday a man put in isolation with fever had tested negative for the deadly tropical disease Ebola.

Press Release NEW YORK, N.Y., August 5, 2014 – The Africa Travel Association (ATA) announced today that a high-level tourism delegation from the Uganda Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities under the auspices of Honorable Minister Maria Mutagamba will participate in a North America promotional road show with stops in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., New York, and Toronto (Canada) in early September. The road show is part of the promotions for ATA’s 39th Annual World Congress...

President Museveni has asked Ugandans to fight the HIV/Aids scourge, as well as poverty, “in a revolutionary way” - a method he said the National Resistance Movement (NRM) he leads, uses.

Uganda’s exports to the 14 member countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) free trade zone (FTA) will not attract import taxes beginning July, Mr David Wakikona, the minister of State for Trade, has said.

Kaimu Katibu Mkuu Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii ambaye pia ni Mganga Mkuu wa Serikali, Dk. Donald Mmbando
Serikali imewatoa hofu wa wananchi kuhusu ugonjwa mpya wa Marburg ambao umelipuka nchini Uganda huku dalili z\ake zikifanana na za Ebola.

Aidha Wizara imewataka wananchi kupuuzia taarifa zinazosambazwa na watu wachache kuwa ugonjwa wa ebola umeingia nchini wakati siyo kweli kwa kuwa Wizara ndio inatakiwa kutoa taarifa hizo.

Hayo yalisemwa jijini Dar es Salaam jana na Kaimu Katibu Mkuu...

Na Projestus Binamungu, Mwanza.

 

Serikali imesema hakuna mgonjwa yeyote aliyeripotiwa kuwa na kirusi cha homa ya Marburg mpaka hivi sasa na imewataka watanzania kuchukua tahadhali.

 

Ugonjwa ambao umeibuka tena nchini Uganda tayari imesababisha kifo cha mtu mmoja na wengine kadhaa wakiwa mahututi.

 

Oktoba, 20 mwaka 2012 Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii, ilipokea taarifa kutoka Shirika la Afya Duniani WHO juu ya uwepo wa mripuko wa ugonjwa wa homa ya Marburg katika nchi jirani ya...

Kampala, Monday. The Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation yesterday confirmed the outbreak of Marburg Viral fever in the country after one person died of the disease on September 28.

Kupigwa marufuku kwa mikutano ya kampeni nchini Uganda wakati taifa hilo likielekea kufanya uchaguzi mkuu mwezi Januari 2021 kunaweza kunufaisha chama tawala zaidi kuliko upande wa upinzani.

How `free` will free education be?
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Parents are in a dilemma over whether they should continue paying contributions to schools accommodating their children as the government's pledge to abolish school fees becomes effective at the start of the academic year in January. Though the public ...