HIV/AIDS
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High school students and college-age adults have been complaining to District officials that the free condoms the city has been offering are not of good enough quality...
made popular May 25 2010
The UK government through DFID is to give Uganda 45 million condoms to avert 75,000 abortions and 250,000 unwanted pregnancies. Uganda has one of the highest maternal...
made popular May 25 2010
Congestion in prisons is exacerbating the spread of tuberculosis among inmates, an assistant commissioner for health with the Uganda Prisons Service has said.
Dr...
made popular Mar 26 2010
Boarding a prison lorry as some relatives waved at him, a 68-year-old man was overwhelmed and burst into tears.
Convicted of defiling his own daughter and sentenced to...
made popular Jan 15 2010
Washington DC police can arrest a woman in any area they’ve declared prostitution free zone. And in a backasswards move to curb prostitution, carrying more than two...
made popular Jan 9 2010
The US Government has finally removed the ban on immigrants with HIV/AIDS that barred them from entering the country. The amendments would be followed by a bi-annual...
made popular Jan 6 2010
Christmas merry making may have come a little early for gender rights’ activists in the country after Parliament yesterday passed a new law that outlaws and...
made popular Dec 12 2009
PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a Bill prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM).
The object of the Bill is to provide for legislation necessary for criminalising the...
made popular Dec 11 2009
Male circumcision may help men from contracting the HIV virus but does not protect wives and sexual partners of infected men, researchers reported in an article posted...
made popular Jul 18 2009
AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is a virus that is mainly transmitted by having sex with an infected partner. HIV also is spread through...
made popular Mar 19 2009
India is one of the 2nd largest populated countries in the world, with over one billion inhabitants. Of this number, it’s estimated that more or less 7 million...
made popular Mar 20 2009
The spread from the high-risk behavior groups to the general populace is another key indicator that HIV/AIDs in India has reached epidemic proportions. The disease is...
made popular Mar 19 2009
By Julius Barigaba
Kampala, Feb 20 2009
Karamoja, here comes God’s messenger; but what a job she has got on her hands!
Close to one million hungry, starving people,...
made popular Feb 21 2009
A parent unrivalling the intricacies in sex to a child has not been a common and easy practice. Most would rather let the child grow up, find out about sex and solely...
made popular Jan 31 2009
We need to view some so-called progressive concerns in a wider perspective. How can a failure to imbibe aberrations of human nature leads to creation of...
made popular Dec 27 2008
Bombay high court ruled against the HIV+ husband. His wife not only got divorce but also alimony. Someday ago family court in Pune told husband that you can’t leave...
made popular Dec 23 2008
Nine out of ten children with HIV do not have access to life-saving anti-retroviral drugs. Governments and donors need to be more ambitious in bringing existing...
made popular Dec 5 2008
To mark World AIDS Day, a Civil Forum on Global Health at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. will present President Bush with the first “International Medal of PEACE”...
made popular Dec 4 2008
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HIV/AIDS is once again in the news and most importantly its about the prevalence rate in the Ugandan army.
Over the past 21 years, the Uganda People’s Defence...
made popular Nov 21 2008
The government of Uganda is now developing a program to implement a nation-wide male circumcision exercise as part of the strategy to reduce HIV infection rates....
made popular Oct 11 2008
THE adage goes, ‘train a woman and you have trained a nation’. This is philosophy to development, right from the household. Many times it eludes society to the...
made popular Oct 4 2008
After 25 years of a generalized HIV epidemic in Uganda, a lot of progress in terms of mitigating the effects of the disease has been made. People who have contracted...
made popular Sep 29 2008
The government has started a campaign to test willing Ugandans of HIV/Aids from their homes. The Minister of Health, Dr Stephen Mallinga, told the Parliamentary...
made popular Sep 20 2008
Just to reiterate the most important point: AIDS is a surveillance tool that has been used to track and record 29 previously known illnesses when they appear in people...
made popular Sep 18 2008
First, there were character checks. Then there were bank balance and property checks. And now, there are health checks.
Increasingly, detectives in the city are being...
made popular Jul 10 2008
Quiz me on things like- the most memorable experience, happiest moment of life and vice versa, one will find me speechless…I begin to wonder…Can I let out just one...
made popular Jul 1 2008
AIDSfreeAFRICA volunteer Jessica Kim writes from her experience as HIV/AIDS counselor: One day, I had the opportunity of meeting John, a college student who was being...
made popular Jun 27 2008
Chidambaram also said that the migratory labourers, lorry drivers and above all sex workers are the most vulnerable sections of the society.
made popular Jun 15 2008
A survey conducted in Kampala among lodge owners has rocked the marriage institution with most of the lodges getting more fully occupied during the lunch break than any...
made popular Jun 12 2008
AIDS is a huge problem in South Africa. One of pandemic proportions as a matter of fact. According to a website called Avert, “almost half of all deaths in South...
made popular Jun 8 2008
Katie, Jennifer and Marcy got to march on Youth Day with the students and teachers of the Dilicig Primary and Nursery School. Last year in February they marched past...
made popular May 15 2008
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The Parliamentary Committee on HIV/AIDS has come up with a bill on HIV/AIDS, which seeks to introduce criminal sanctions to prosecute HIV-positive...
made popular May 11 2008
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