A new report shows that youth demand for the lowering of the age consent for HIV/AIDS testing for the young generation. This was revealed by the young people in the base line survey conducted in Luwero and Nakasongola districts by the community health Alliance Uganda on top of other districts in Buganda and Busoga under the […]
The outgoing United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) representative to Uganda Musa Bangudu says that 95 % of pregnant women with HIV/AIDS are on antiretroviral treatment. He made the revelation while visiting the speaker of parliament Rebeca Kadaga at parliament. He also revealed that the number of babies catching the HIV/AIDS has reduced by 86% in Uganda. […]
After a very successful research on the use and prevention of the transmission of HIV from males to females by use of the Dapirvine virginal ring among Ugandan women, now the women who were used to carry out the research on and their men have come out to praise the new technology saying it is […]
Scientists who invented the virginal ring that prevents women from contracting HIV have expressed happiness as their research on the ring has yielded results as expected with the ring able to reduce 31% of new HIV infections among women according to the research findings. Releasing the results, Dr. Clemensia Nakabiito, a senior consultant obstetrician and gynecologist who is also […]
Positive men union in Uganda are strongly concerned with the increasing idle funds laying on various accounts of many local government across the country and not fully extending services to the communities. According to the national coordinator Richard, Gavi and Global Fund monies are sent to each and every district to service activities of people living with HIV/AIDS and its […]
The country Director United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Musa Bungudu has asked parliament to negotiate with the cultural leaders to end practices of wife sharing among men to avoid the spread of HIV/AIDS. Bungunda made the remarks while speaking at the opening of the parliament health week at CHOGM ground in Kampala. He said that some of […]
The gender, labour and social development minister, Muruli Mukasa is advising parents to always take off time and speak to their children about the deadly HIV/AIDS disease if the country is to scale down on new infections among the adolescents. Speaking at the opening of the stakeholders meeting, the minister reveals that adolescents are these days […]
Stigmatisation of persons living with HIV/AIDS in Manafa district has hampered the progress of HIV treatment and adherence to medication. The District Health Officer, Gideon Wamasebu, made this revelation to the Committee on HIV/AIDS during its field tour to the district. “Most people still fear to be tested and get enrolled to the anti-retroviral therapy […]
Uganda Cares has constructed a Medical Centre in Lukaya along Masaka high way worth 2.3 million dollars to help carry out voluntary HIV/AIDS testing and counseling in the nearby districts. According to the director advocacy East and West African region Dr Mina Nakawuka , the centre will help tackle the high HIV prevalence rate in the region. […]
The increase in HIV prevalence in Uganda has been attributed to the reluctance by the government to champion the fight against the disease. The Executive Director of the National Community for women living with HIV/AIDS, Florence Buluba says failure by government to implement good policies will remain a challenge to the anti – HIV activists. The government […]