At least 95 percent of Kampala city’s 4 million residents are worried about the continued spread of COVID-19 in the country according to Twaweza’s Sauti Za Wanainchi Survey. The survey found that the residents were worried about the current wave of the pandemic. Uganda is experiencing the second wave of the pandemic and new cases…
By Ben Musanje A mobile money agent at Kubbiri Veterans Market in Wandegeya Kawempe division has accused police officers of snatching his money amounting to UGX 2.2 million shillings during their attempt to arrest him for improper wearing of a face mask. This follows an operation in which police and Kampala Capital City Authority…
By Jael Namiganda HIV community-based prevention services were greatly affected when Uganda imposed the first lock down but some service providers came up with innovative ways to help with the access to drugs and to keep services going. In Uganda, a lock down was imposed by the president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in March 2020 and the…
By Vivian Agaba Journalists in Busoga sub- region have been urged to embrace the health reporting beat in order to improve the health literacy and awareness among their communities. The call was made by Daniel Saire, Iganga District Communications Officer while addressing journalists from the region during two-day media workshop organized by Peer to Peer Uganda…
By Vivian Agaba More journalists in Africa are taking on the science beat and the quality of reporting it is picking up, according to media experts. Although there is no specific data on the number of science journalists in Africa, different reports indicate that more journalists on the continent are embracing science journalism reporting. Thus, science…
BY Malik Fahad Jjingo HEJNU member in MASAKA On Tuesday at 13;56 a volunteer in Masaka City received a shot in the arm and became one of the first of the 1,600 volunteers to participate in a massive African-led HIV vaccine trial. The trial which will take place in four African countries of Uganda, Tanzania, South…
By Vivian Agaba Getting scientists and science journalists into one room to talk and agree on good working relations is not usual. At the just concluded third Kenya Science Journalists Congress held from 18th-20th November 2019, at Sai Rock Beach Hotel, Mombasa-Kenya, this just happened. The scientists and science journalists acknowledged that they need each…
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