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OPINION: The Patriot’s Focus on Uganda’s Unemployment Question

Article By, Gad Kanyesigye_The Patriot_ a community empowerment advocate.  To begin with, many Ugandan parents are not business-oriented, which is a significant reason why their children often finish school...

UGANDA: 4 out of 10 children suffer stunted growth due to malnutrition

Locals in Isingiro district,western Uganda and other parts of the country have been challenged to embrace better feeding...

A Polio Survivor Turns His Disability into a Powerful Plea for Vaccination

CREDIT - UNICEF, DRC.  Rajabu Vampise deftly manoeuvres his wheelchair through the backstreets of Kindu in the Democratic...

INSIDE THE COLONIAL LEGACY OF HOMOPHOBIA IN MODERN-DAY UGANDA

By Hyowon Park , International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA).  In March 2023, the Ugandan...

DR Congo’s Reliance on Charcoal threatens Forests and Fuels Armed Conflict

Elodie Toto - KANYARUCHINYA, Democratic Republic of Congo. Amid a circle of spectators, a troupe of performers takes...

UGANDA: Why are young women and girls abandoning life-saving HIV treatment?

Health experts and HIV/AIDS activists in Uganda are concerned over the increasing number of young women and girls in care who are abandoning antiretroviral...

ENDING AIDS BY 2030: Gender Inequalities & Human Rights Violations Increasing Children & Women’s Vulnerability to HIV 

It is unfinished business, and only the urgent and accelerated delivery of HIV services will keep the promise of ending AIDS in children by...

UGANDA: How HIV-positive young women and girls have abandoned ARVs

Health experts in Mbarara City and other parts of western Uganda have expressed concern over the increasing number of  people living with HIV abandoning...

Africa’s Anti-LGBT+ Laws: A big setback in the fight against HIV/AIDS

Progressive voices across the world will have to double their efforts in countering the escalating threats to LGBT+ people in Africa amid wave of...

UGANDA’S NEW ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY ACT 2023: LGBTQIA+ Members Shun Health Facilities  

By Aaron Ainomugisha. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights-SRHR experts in Uganda have expressed concern over LGBTQIA+ members shunning health facilities in the wake...

LOCAL AUTHORITIES DECRY SEVERAL CHALLENGES AS LEPROSY RAVAGES KASESE

Two minors aged three and five are among the 30 people who are on medication for leprosy in Kasese district western Uganda, as it...