We have heard that the Uganda Aids Commission has started visits to the government offices to carry out HIV/AIDS testing and voluntary counseling. The sources at Statehouse told us that the commission officials visited them on Wednesday and carried out voluntary counseling and HIV testing on them. Sources told us that over 200 officials […]
Ugandans living with HIV/AIDS can now afford a smile after the UK researchers developed the new guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO). These new guidelines are believed to have the capacity to protect the health workers, couples, prostitutes and babies born with HIV virus. These guidelines […]
Uganda clinics have started selling a new drug meant to be administered to pregnant mothers. The new drug is called ‘option b+. The drug is used on pregnant mothers in order to replace mother to child HIV transition. Uganda has replaced the AZT drugs with this new Option B+ drugs. The new drug has […]
People living with HIV in Uganda and Africa in general are in trouble due to limited access of CD4 machines. And the situation gets worse when some of the few CD4 machines available in some African communities are stolen. For example suspected thugs recently went away with a CD4 machine in Teso sub region […]
Many people in the world, especially in Africa, Latin America and in some parts of Asia still take human immune deficiency virus (HIV) to be the same as the Acquired Immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV or human immune deficiency virus and AIDS or the Acquired Immune deficiency syndrome is totally different. HIV is a […]
I was born normal and grew up without any disability. My names are Rose Namayanja, a resident of Namasuba, Kampala. The disability set in when I was happily in my marriage. A house collapsed on me and left my left leg paralysed. I spent a very long time at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, […]
Today we have decided to tell you how HIV/AIDS is spread in Uganda. The medical doctors at Mulago Hospital and at the Ministry of Health-Uganda say that HIV/AIDS spread is on increase in the country due to lack of openness by people living with HIV/Aids to those free of the virus. Uganda’s HIV country […]
New findings released by Uganda, one of the five countries in East Africa indicate that HIV/AIDS incidences in the region have risen to 6.7%. Uganda’s Ministry of health reveals that HIV/AIDS cases have risen to 6.7% up from 6.4%. The research findings done in 2004/5 show that at least two million of Uganda’s 30 […]
Tears rolled down the faces of a woman and her daughter when the police medical report revealed that the man who raped them on Wednesday was HIV positive. The thief broke into their room on Wednesday and tied her on the bed she was sleeping on and raped her. The thief then turned to […]
Tears rolled down the faces of a woman and her daughter when the police medical report revealed that the man who raped them on Wednesday was HIV positive. The thief broke into their room on Wednesday and tied her on the bed she was sleeping on and raped her. The thief then turned to […]