John Agaba

Uganda steps up cholera surveillance along imperilled borders

Amid an influx of people from cholera-hit DRC and South Sudan, Uganda has upped its cross-border disease surveillance.

7 Jul 2025

6 min read

A team of health workers, village health teams (VHTs), and other community leaders meeting in Agoro to figure out how to stop cholera after the disease killed a woman. Credit: Denis Ocula

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Malaria vaccination in Apac District, Credit: Jjumba Martin

How the malaria vaccine came to the world’s most mosquito-bitten district

13 Jun 2025

7 min read

Malaria Spotlight on malaria

Dr Jane Aceng (right) handing discharge certificates to survivors of the latest Sudan virus disease in Uganda. Eight people have survived the deadly virus, while one person has died. Credit: Emmanuel Ainebyoona, Ugandan Ministry of Health

How Uganda is tackling the Ebola-like Sudan virus

6 Mar 2025

6 min read

Mothers harvesting tea leaves in Kajugangoma, Kanungu. Communities around tea estates harbour more of Uganda's zero-dose burden because they are hard to reach. Credit: Phillip Kanyesigye

Fighting deadly disease on Uganda’s tea plantations

26 Feb 2025

6 min read

Vaccine campaigns Routine immunisation

Dr Sabin Nsanzimana, Rwanda's Minister of Health, and Dr Brian Chilombo, WHO's Rwanda Representative, at the Kigali Convention Centre. Credit: Rwanda Ministry of Health

How Rwanda stopped a Marburg outbreak

13 Jan 2025

6 min read

Marburg Made in Africa Vaccine development

Dr Mwesigwa and a colleague addressing health journalists about latest HIV and Vaccine research in Kampala. Credit: John Agaba.JPG

“These filoviruses are always re-emerging” say East African scientists working on vaccine for Sudan Ebola strain

19 Dec 2024

8 min read

Made in Africa Ebola

Namusoke giving a polio vaccine to a baby under a shade at Kyegegwa Hospital. Credit: John Agaba

Meet the nurse helping newcomers to safety in one of Uganda's largest refugee settlements

17 Oct 2024

7 min read

Spotlight on conflict and fragility Conflict & humanitarian Health worker heroes

The signpost to St Pius Kidepo Health Centre III in Moroto. The facility is the only health centre closest to the kraals deep in Karamoja. Credit: John Agaba

"It is a risk someone has to take": the Catholic nun helping vaccinate thousands in Uganda’s Karamoja

18 Sep 2024

7 min read

Health worker heroes Climate change Conflict & humanitarian

Uganda has procured five Mobile TB Clinics to screen and diagnose the bacterial infecion in the country's hard-to-reach-areas. The van is equipped with a digital X-ray machine, AI, and a GeneXpert Machine. Credit: Aldo Burua

How portable, AI X-ray machines are helping Uganda beat TB

24 May 2024

6 min read

Innovation Tuberculosis

Namaalwa supporting VHTs to strengthen their capacity to scale up village child registration to track their immunisation statuses at Kagumba HCIII in Kamuli district. Credit: John Agaba

ZDC superheroes: the consultants helping to vaccinate vulnerable kids in Uganda

30 Jan 2024

7 min read

Zero-dose children Health worker heroes

Lonette Kiconco preparing to inoculate a newborn against TB at the Doctors Medical Centre in Kampala.

How Uganda’s immunisation programme helped reduce child mortality

5 Jan 2024

8 min read

Zero-dose children Vaccine campaigns

Flavia Kyomukama wants every girl to take HPV jabs and every woman to be screened for cervical cancer. Credit: John Agaba

She watched cancer kill her mother. Now Flavia Kyomukama is on a mission to save lives

29 Aug 2023

6 min read

Vaccine campaigns HPV

Doreen Naiga (Middle without cap) and other Africa CDC Bingwas after the vaccination camp in Ssembabule district. Credit: Doreen Naiga

“We need these jabs”: How a Ugandan ‘bingwa’ is helping boost demand for COVID-19 vaccines

9 May 2023

6 min read

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