Poverty continues to be blamed as the number one cause of the high HIV/AIDS prevalence among Ugandan women. This is closely followed by cultural beliefs and norms that put most women at a disadvantage compared to men. According to Florence Buluba, the Executive Director of the National Community of women Living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda, […]
The civil society groups have reported that Uganda is off track in the fight against AIDS despite the funding from development partners. Speaking a head of the Country’s joint Annual AIDS review that started this morning, Health activists noted that over the past five years the HIV prevalence rates in Uganda have risen from 6.4 […]
A new frontier in the fight against HIV/AIDS in millions of new born children in Uganda has been launched in Kampala on Tuesday. The new frontier (read plan) has been code named ‘Option B+’ plan. Under option B+ plan, pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS will receive treatment early enough in order to prolong their […]
Leading world HIV/AIDS have asked Uganda to implement its national HIV prevention and strategic plans if the country is to reverse the spiraling infections of HIV. The right on the heels of the 2011 AIDS Indicator Survey in Uganda shows that the HIV prevalence has gone up to 7.3% from 6.4% in 2006. The […]
Children of parents living with HIV/AIDS in Kampalawill be studying in separate classrooms. A group of community volunteers in Kampalaconstructed a three classroom block in Bwaise for pupils whose parents can’t pay school fees plus those living with HIV/AIDS. The school is managed by Action for Fundamental Change and Development- a non-governmental organisation operating […]
HIV/AIDS women inUgandaget married to multiple partners without condoms in order to ease their libido, latest research findings reveal. Research findings indicate that over 60% of women inUgandahave multiple sex partners, and three thirds of them do not use condoms during sexual engagements. In Hoima district, about 90% of the women there have multiple […]
HIV/AIDS testing is one of the chief means of slowing new infections which have steadily increased in East Africa especially in Uganda. The cases of HIV spread in Ugandahave increased from 124,000 annually, as of 2009, to 130,000 today. The Ministry of Health IN Uganda estimates that 40 percent, or about 13,600, 000 people […]
Testing for HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases has become easier in Uganda following the invention of a machine that will be able to test people to see whether they are HIV positive in the comfort of their homes. The new home test kit (you may read machine), also codenamed OraQuick was recently invented […]
Many people in the world find it difficult to care for HIV-positive children. Some parents whom we interviewed for purposes of writing this story said that their children keeps on asking them why they give them medicine even when they are not sick. Doctors tell us that the appetite for some of the children […]
Clinical trials to test the effectiveness and safety of virginal rings are being carried out currently in different countries around the globe. Some of the countries that have done these trials include Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. These virginal rings contain anti-retroviral drugs, which are inserted into the vagina in a bid to […]