Regulation or Discrimination? Uganda’s proposed IVF Law could be both A little more than a year after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world’s harshest LGBTQ+ laws, another bill under parliamentary review has reignited concerns over the rights of lesbian, gay,...

World AMR Awareness Week 2024 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing global health and socioeconomic crisis. It has significant impacts on human and animal health, food production and the environment. https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-amr-awareness-week/2024 Why your Vitamin...

The hassle of registering a birth in Uganda Robert Offiti, a Regional Manager at HEPS-Uganda, a non-profit that is currently championing the scaling up of birth registration under the Voices progamme says it is important for parents to take birth registration seriously....

Polio outbreak linked to strain from Somalia says WHO expert Health minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng says “We need to get rid of polio from the world and Ugandans need to work very hard for this to happen.”...

Kigezi crumbles under the weight of high TB cases According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 91, 000 contract TB in Uganda every year, translating to about 240 people daily...