Health

HIV/AIDs Is Quietly Rewriting the Numbers Again & It’s Not Looking Good

Our parents buried friends. Our generation buries the conversation. And somehow, HIV continues to win. Uganda, like many African nations, carries a shadow that moves...

Uganda Government Funding of SRHR Left Wanting in 2025/2026 – Cynthia Kinyera

Uganda’s National Budget for the 2025/2026 financial year arrived with a few surprises in store for us all. When you want to know what...

From Landcruisers to Lifelines: Uganda’s Budget Finally Gets a Moral Makeover

Uganda is a very beautiful country that can be summarized from the soap opera title ‘Beautiful but Unlucky’ In the many of its unlucky...

MORE THAN A MOVIE: “It Ends With Us” Raises Critical SRHR Concerns

Trigger warning: This article includes mentions of domestic violence and sexual assault. Please read with care. For a while now, the film It Ends with...

Sitting, The New Smoking

Most of us spend hours per day sitting down, whether it be in traffic, at work, or when binge-watching our favorite TV episodes. The...

Edging Out Thrombosis, A Leading Cause Of Mortality Worldwide

In line with World Thrombosis Day, Irvine Partners has kept spreading awareness of thrombosis, a blood clotting disorder that is a major cause of...

5 Underrated Health Benefits Of Eating Ice Cream

Whereas “An apple a Day keeps the doctor away.”, perhaps a scoop of ice cream could do the same as we shall delve...

Going About Parenting An Autistic Child

Autism and ADHD are two common childhood medical conditions; that you may be familiar with or at least you have heard one of these...

Toxic Productivity & How To Counter It

It’s the new year and New Year resolutions are being set and noted in our notebooks, and notes-taking mobile applications to some of us....

Didn’t Hit Your 2022 Goals? All Is Well

Dearest reader,  I hope this finds you well. It seems like only yesterday that we were chanting “Happy New Year,” unfortunately without fireworks (like we always do) due to the unrest of the pandemic. It was with smiles on our faces and...

Gayaza, Rocket Health Is Now Available AWO Ku Near

The Ugandan accolade-winning telemedicine provider has now opened in Gayaza! According to a McKinsey study, as the world grappled with the COVID pandemic, the popularity of...

Why A Helmet Should Be One Of Your Must-Have Items This Year Going Forward.

When Safeboda rolled out with operations in Uganda four years ago, their major emphasis was on creating a safe traveling experience for their hailers,...

A Wedding To Marry Efforts Towards Boasting Fight Against Childhood Cancer.

Uganda Child Cancer Foundation, led by Moses Echodu, have come together to hold a parallel wedding to raise funds for the foundation. The wedding...

Reach A Hand Uganda & DKT Women Care Commemorate Women’s Day With Introduction Of ‘Levoplant’ A New Family Planning Method.

Reach A Hand, Uganda (RAHU) in partnership with DKT Women Care yesterday connected with young people in Kasanga, to celebrate women’s day under the...

Children & Mental Health

Exposure to childhood trauma affects the way our DNA is methylated. The gene children inherit from their biological parents provide information that guides their...

Nile Breweries Targets 10,000 In Country Wide COVID-19 Vaccination Drive

Nile Breweries Ltd (NBL), Uganda’s beer market leader, today launched a simultaneous COVID-19 vaccination drive to support the Ministry of Health by setting up...

SafeBoda Partners With KCCA & PSFU On COVID-19 Vaccination Drive

In its commitment to secure the health and safety of its employees and the communities at large, SafeBoda has announced a vaccination drive for...

In Commemoration of World Suicide Prevention Day

Losing a friend to suicide can put you in a very dark corner, you begin to question yourself if you would have done more...

Society, Media and SRHR

Reproductive Health Uganda last week held its second ‘School Out Project’ to disseminate its latest findings in line of Sexual Reproductive Health Information and...

Here is What Needs To Be Done To Unlock Young People’s Sexual Reproductive Health

At 9 million, adolescents make up almost a quarter of Uganda’s population. There’s hardship to life due to Poverty, HIV and AIDS, early marriages,...

MTN & Africa CDC Hasten on Fight Against COVID-19 with ‘One More Push Africa’ Campaign

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and pan-African operator MTN Group today launched a joint campaign – “One More Push” –...

Power to Youth Country Program Flagged Off

Friday last week, the Embassy of Netherlands, together with partners Straight Talk Africa, Sonke Gender Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched the...

Reproductive Health Uganda & Partners Disseminate School Out Project Findings on Youth Sexual Reproductive Health

Established in 1968 as South Africa’s statutory research agency for the human and social sciences, the Human Sciences Research Council’s (HSRC) School’s Out project...

SafeBoda and UNFPA seek to solve menstrual-related challenges in ‘My Menstrual Health’ campaign 

The United Nations Reproductive Health and Rights Agency (UNFPA) and ride-hailing company SafeBoda have today in an event held at the Safe Boda Offices...

MTN rolls out ‘Wear It For Me’ campaign across Africa to encourage wearing of face masks

Wearing a mask is one of the best ways to slow down the spread of COVID-19. And to make sure that MTN gets everyone...