Global HIV Bodies Speak Out on Proposed Uganda’s Anti-Gay Law

Global HIV body, the International AIDS Society (IAS) has condemned the newly approved Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023, saying it’s an extreme violation of human rights and threatens to reverse the country’s progress in the HIV response. The legislation passed on Tuesday and awaits accent by President Yoweri Museveni, makes it a crime to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

UGX 1.5Bn COVID-19 Research Equipment Lies Idle in Warehouse

Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee-Central Government has noted a possibility of the tax payer losing 1.59 billion Shillings in unutilized COVID-19 equipment purchased by the disbanded Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. The equipment identified as the Dr Oligo DNA Synthesizer Machine was procured for a scientist from M/S Micro Haem Scientific and Medical Supplies Limited,…