By Ben Musanje The African Center for Rehabilitation of Treatment of Torture Victims – ACTV has recorded an increase of torture cases during the COVID-19 pandemic. President Yoweri Museveni during a public address on TV has since asked the security forces to stop torturing citizens because they are enforcing COVID-19 regualtions. Most of the cases…
Bosco Mbabazi will perhaps live to remember Uganda’s Covid19 second lockdown. Five days after president Yoweri Museveni’s address of June 18 th sending Ugandans into a second total lockdown, Mbabazi tasted the wrath of security men. Mbabazi, a resident of Makindye West III zone recounts events that show three of his teeth allegedly removed by…
Some of the measures put in place by the government in response to COVID-19 have negatively impacted maternal, child and neonatal health, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). UNFPA says the biggest and longest lasting impact is seen in complications of pregnancy, stillbirths and low-birth weight infants likely due to delayed care-seeking…
The African Center for Rehabilitation of Treatment of Torture Victims – ACTV has recorded an increase of torture cases during the COVID-19 pandemic. President Yoweri Museveni during a public address on TV has since asked the security forces to stop torturing citizens because they are enforcing COVID-19 regualtions. Most of the cases recorded were inflicted…
By Ben Musanje Days after President Yoweri Museveni has just rebuked Uganda’s security forces for using excessive violence, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Martin Okoth Ochola has admitted that some elements in the force still use torture to extract information from suspects. In a televised address on Saturday, Museveni publicly slammed security forces for using torture…
By Flavia Nassaka Private health providers want the Ministry of Health to purchase COVID-19 vaccines from manufacturers on their behalf, Grace Ssali Kiwanuka, the Executive Director Uganda Healthcare Federation (UHF) said in an interview noting that they have also asked the ministry to allow them store the vaccines at the National Medical Stores (NMS) once…
By Flavia Nassaka 79% of the respondents in a new survey whose results were released over the weekend feel pregnancies have increased in their communities ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began. This isn’t an entirely new finding since some were already reported not to have returned when government briefly re-opened schools in a staggered manner…
By Flavia Nassaka The government’s biggest pre-occupation now is ensuring that as many people as possible get vaccinated, after the suspension of lockdown restrictions that were instituted in June. This is according to Dr Immaculate Ampaire the Deputy Manager of the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization (UNEPI). Dr Ampaire said that they are exploring…
By Flavia Nassaka HIV advocates have condemned the continued harassment of sex workers by especially police officers who defraud them of their heard earned cash in the disguise of implementing COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Macklean Kyomya, Executive Director at Alliance of Women Advocating for Change (AWAC), an organization that advocates for…
By Brian Luwaga Luwero and Nakasongola Districts COVID-19 taskforces have ordered the arrest of mourners opening coffins containing bodies of COVID-19 victims. The Uganda government as part of the Standard Operating Procedures to stop COVID-19 in Uganda announced that open caskets funerals are abolished for people who have succumbed to the disease. …