Implementing Partner: Health Journalists Network in Uganda (HEJNU) Sponsor: UNFPA Reporting period: December 2017 HEJNU: New strategies on combating HIV / AIDS ACTIVITY: Science café to facilitate dissemination of information concerning the new and innovative strategies that can be adopted in the fight against HIV / AIDS. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION: The activity was a science…
Name of person responsible /Facilitator: Esther Nakkazi Café Name/Title: HIV Prevention Sponsor: AVAC Speaker’s name Dr. Bernard Kikaire; Uganda Virus Research Institute Patricia Magoba; Aids Orphans Education Trust Edmund Tayebwa; The Aids Support Organization (TASO) The speakers came from the Uganda Virus Research Institute, The Aids Support Organization, and the Aids Orphans Education Trust. Date…
Name of person responsible /Facilitator: Esther Nakkazi Café Name/Title: HIV Prevention Speaker’s name Freddie Mukasa Kibengo; MRC/UVRI&LSHTM UGANDA RESEARCH UNIT VINCENT BASAJJA: MRC/UVRI&LSHTM UGANDA RESEARCH UNIT SYLVIA KUSEMERERWA; MRC/UVRI&LSHTM UGANDA RESEARCH UNIT Date Cafe held: June 20, 2018 Café objectives (The learning objectives should be tailored for each specific café) To enlighten more about Prep…
ACTIVITY REPORT CP Component: RH Family planning Sponsor: UNFPA Implementing Partner: Health Journalists Network in Uganda (HEJNU) Reporting period: November 2016 HEJNU: Undertake behavioural change communication /Teenage pregnancies ACTIVITY: Science café to facilitate dissemination of information concerning the challenges of Teenage pregnancies to the public through various media houses. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION: The activity was…
Name of person responsible / Facilitator Esther Nakkazi Café Name/Title Basics of HIV reporting: Key issues in HIV prevention that journalists need to know and report about Location Mbarara-Uganda Date café held August 28, 2017 Café objectives (The learning objectives should be tailored for each specific café) • This is the first of several…
ACTIVITY REPORT Facilitator: Esther Nakkazi Implementing Partner: Health Journalists Network in Uganda (HEJNU) Reporting period: March 2016 HEJNU: Undertake behavioral change communication / Menstrual Hygiene ACTIVITY: Science café to facilitate dissemination of information concerning Menstrual Hygiene to the public through various media houses. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION: This activity was a science café held as…
Name of person responsible /Facilitator: Esther Nakkazi Café Name/Title: HIV Prevention Sponsor: AVAC Organized: Health Journalists Network in Uganda Speaker’s names: Dr. Emmanuel Mugisa HIV – PMTCT Coordinator; Baylor Uganda Kakwezi Henry, Nurse, Kagote Health Center III Katusabe Beatrice; User, Kagote Health Center III Date Cafe held: June 21, 2018 Café objectives (The learning objectives…
Name of person responsible /Facilitator Esther Nakkazi Café Name/Title The proposed introduction of the Panty Condom and HIV prevention Location Kampala, Uganda Date café held January 24, 2018 Café objectives (The learning objectives should be tailored for each specific café) • To introduce the journalists to the proposed panty condoms as one of the…
On 19th April 2017, a renowned local artiste Mathias Walukagga was aired on a national television, Bukedde, for having forced sexual relations with his former housemaid Aisha , whom he later promised to look after away from his home. Aisha has since given birth to a son at her parent’s homes without receiving a penny…
Government seeks to test 320,000 HIV positive people. Makerere Joint Aids Program(MJAP) has devised new models for HIV testing though targeted community outreaches with index clients,assisted partner mitigation and pattern testing. MJAP reveals 1,35million people in Uganda living with HIV/AIDs. HIV prevalence at 14years old for both girls and boys stands off at 0.5% while…