Olivia Namaloba works with Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC). She covered a story on children and COVID-19 vaccines. This is in light of fact that there is vaccine inequity. The Journalists for Human Rights project has contributed to international public health efforts to combat the spread of COVID-19 and its impact on human rights, in particular women’s…
Jessica Sabano works with The Daily Monitor, and in her interview she talks about mothers who could not go home with their new bundles of joy because they failed to pay their bills at the hospitals during the pandemic. Although some were eventually bailed out there rights were violated as the hospitals kept them hostage…
Hajara Namale works with the mighty CBS radio station in Kampala, Uganda. She covered a story on reproductive health rights and how teen girls were getting pregnant. She talked to a mother whose ten year old got pregnant and they had to carry out an abortion. The Journalists for Human Rights has contributed to international…
Gladys Kigozi works with The Scribe and is based upcountry in Mukono. She covered a story on children and COVID-19. She followed up a young girl who could not even use the free government provided radio to be online for school and instead became a market vendor stepping in her mother’s shoes to sleep in…
Ruth Nazziwa works for the Vision Group and contributes to one of its publications Bukedde print, a daily Ugandan newspaper and writes in Luganda. In her interview with the Health Journalists Network under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights she talks about one of the stories she wrote on human rights. She…
Flavia Nassaka, a journalist with Uganda Radio Network (URN) has written extensively about the COVID-19 pandemic and in this interview by the Health Journalists Network under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights she talks about the exorbitant fees that private companies charged COVID-19 patients. Here is Flavia Nassaka’s interview where she talks…
Ann Kajumba works with UBC, the state owned broadcaster and her was about a story which explored children’s rights to vaccines and included efforts by the government to keep learners in class despite the lockdown. She pointed the government’s efforts in keeping learners in class. This interview by Ann Kajumba was produced as one of the…
Victor Kiyimba is one of the people who will live to remember Uganda’s first Covid19 lockdown which was intended to control the spread of the contagious disease. The total lockdown that was announced by president Yoweri Museveni, in March 2020 lasted up to July of the same year and the country started operating at half scale. The total…
Uganda has today received 647,080 Moderna vaccine doses from the US government. This is the eighth batch of doses received in Uganda since March this year. Dr. Munir Safieldin, the UNICEF Country Representative , says this is the second largest batch received so far and added that this is a true spirit of sharing. “No…
Government has allowed medical and health training institutions to resume normal studies. Other institutions of higher learning remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This comes a week after the government instructed the Ministries of Education and Health and the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) officials to meet and discuss the safe reopening…