Non-motorized transport corridors – NMT in Kampala are turned into a garbage collection centres. Non-motorized transport in the form of walking, cycling and cycle rickshaws play an important role in cities. It is the primary mode of transport for the urban poor, and at the same time a climate and environmentally friendly form of transport. The…
The Minister of Education and Sports, also the first lady Janet Kataha Museveni is to introduce a vibrant sexual purity campaign. According to Janet Museveni, the campaign is one of the strategies to lessen the prevalence of child-to-child sex, incest, and teen pregnancy, which have had a negative impact on the nation and reached a…
More than 91 million Africans live with Hepatitis B or C, which are the deadliest strains of the virus, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) scorecard that was launched yesterday – ahead of today’s World Hepatitis Day. The Viral Hepatitis Scorecard 2021 looks at data from the African region but focuses on Hepatitis B…
The World Health Organization-WHO on Thursday released new guidelines giving countries a green light to use long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV. The guidelines that were released ahead of the annual International AIDS Conference will support countries as they plan for CAB-LA introduction as part of a comprehensive approach to HIV…