Uganda travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Uganda, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Uganda: Bwindi.
Required to enter
- Yellow fever certificate — required of all arrivals and checked at Entebbe
Recommended
- Routine vaccinations up to date
- Hepatitis A and typhoid
- Malaria prophylaxis, year-round
- Rabies for longer stays
- Meningitis and cholera for some itineraries — ask a travel clinic
Emergency number
999, or 112 from a mobile
Care for visitors
Good but costly
Kampala has good private hospitals — the Surgery, IHK — and the southwest has small clinics and a long drive to anything better. Gorilla lodges are hours from a hospital, and the trek itself is at altitude. Evacuation cover is essential.
Yellow fever certificates are checked on arrival and refused entry follows without one. Malaria is everywhere below 2,000m. Gorilla trekking has a health rule that runs the other way too: if you have a cold or a stomach bug you will be refused, without a refund, because the gorillas catch what we carry.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
