The Chairman of Uganda AIDS Commission Professor Vinand Nantulya says the commission is going to engage the religious leaders separately from different sects to ensure that they deliver the messages of HIV/AIDS effectively to the followers. While launching a report on the status of the stigma and discrimination among HivAids patients that was carried out in central and south western […]
A new report from the ministry of health has indicated that HIV/AIDS prevalence is on the increases among the people between 15-49 years of age. The report that was launched by the Uganda AIDS Commissions in Kampala shows that the increasing infections is due to the men who do not like to use protective measures […]
Following the tremendous increase in the HIV prevalence in the country, Uganda has been forced to launch three anti HIV/AIDS strategies that will help in driving down the high rates of HIV among the populace staring 2011 until 2016. The launched strategies by the vice president, H.E. Edward Kiwanuka Sekandiinclude, the national HIV prevention strategy, Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV strategy. Speaking at the launch of […]
As Uganda prepares to mark World International day the government has been challenged to address all areas that have been identified to be dangerous in as far as Aids transmission is concerned. Musa Bungudu, the Country Director of UNAIDS, the UN body responsible for HIV/AIDS, told a joint press Conference at Parliament that unprotected sex and […]
The UNAIDS Director of the Regional Support Team for East and Southern Africa, Prof. Sheila Tlou, has appealed to Uganda’s First Lady Janet Kataaha Museveni to champion prevention of pediatric HIV infections. South Africa-based Tlou, who arrived in the country on Tuesday for a two-day working visit was meeting Mrs Museveni, who is also the minister for Karamoja Affairs and […]
After years, in fact decades of operations against HIV/AIDS, where have we reached and what have we learned in efforts to prevent infection and curtail the impacts of HIV/AIDS on our communities? Gerald Businge writes that about the successes and challenges in Uganda and the need for fresh thinking in face of a growing HIV positive population and stagnant infection rates.
The Uganda Aids Commission has called upon married people to always take their HIV tests together such that they can know their HIV status together. This comes at a time when the prevalence rate of HIV amongst married people is increasingly causing concern amongst various stakeholders in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Uganda. The Chairperson […]