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...

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...

Congestion in prisons is exacerbating the spread of tuberculosis among inmates, an assistant commissioner for health with the Uganda Prisons Service has said. Dr...

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...

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...

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...

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...

PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a Bill prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM). The object of the Bill is to provide for legislation necessary for criminalising the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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”...