May 15

• Uganda: Country Grapples With Paediatric Vaccine Shortages

  Ugandan children are going unimmunized as the country grapples with persistent and widespread vaccine shortages, the result of insufficient funds and inefficient procurement and... Read more »

May 5

• Uganda: Aiming for Climate Change-Resilient Coffee in Uganda

  In Uganda, a new pilot project seeks to understand the threat climate change poses to coffee, which will enable growers to enhance the crop's resilience to extreme weather events. Read more »

April 26

• Uganda: Uganda Pilots Mobile Courts for Refugees

  Uganda's government and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have launched a pilot mobile court system to improve access to justice for victims of crimes in Nakivale, the country's oldest... Read more »

April 9

• Uganda: Midwives Struggle to Meet Demands

  Despite the significant role midwives play in Uganda's maternal health programmes, they face numerous challenges, including lack of training, inadequate facilities and poor pay. Read more »

March 29

• Uganda: Government Under Pressure to Boost ARV Funding

  The Ugandan government's draft 2013/2014 budget allocates US$38.5 million to enrol a further 100,000 people living with HIV on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. But... Read more »

March 26

• Central Africa: Kony Hunt Still On After CAR Coup

  The search for the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the rainforests of the Central African Republic (CAR) will continue despite the ouster of President... Read more »

February 26

• Uganda: The High Cost of Unsafe Abortion in Uganda

  Boosting women's access to reproductive healthcare could significantly reduce both the number of unsafe abortions and the high cost of post-abortion medical care in Uganda, experts... Read more »

February 14

• Uganda: Beyond Free School Feeding in Uganda's Northeast

  With food aid programmes in Uganda's northeastern region of Karamoja once again under threat from declining financial aid, experts are calling for more sustainable solutions to the... Read more »

February 5

• Uganda: Uganda's Immunization Programme Needs a Shot in the Arm [analysis]

  Inadequate funding, a shortage of health staff and poor adherence to vaccination schedules are some of the reasons for declining immunization levels in Uganda, which experts say... Read more »

January 31

• Southern Africa: Solving Statelessness in the Region

  Frederik Ngubane was born in South Africa to South African parents 22 years ago but, lacking any proof of his origins or nationality, he lives a shadowy, marginal existence. He... Read more »

• South Africa: Frederik Ngubane, Stateless in South Africa - 'It's Like My Future Is On Hold'

  Frederik Ngubane, 22, returned to South Africa, the country of his birth, in 2009, after spending his entire childhood in Kenya and Uganda. An orphan, Ngubane had lost all contact... Read more »

January 18

• Uganda: Rehabilitation Centre for LRA Returnees to Close

  One of the only two remaining reception centres in northern Uganda helping reintegrate former members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is threatened with closure. This would... Read more »

January 16

• Uganda: Children Still Struggling After Kony Kidnappings

  It has been years since northern Uganda's children had to troop to town centres at night for safety from abduction by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), and most have moved on... Read more »

January 9

• Uganda: Northern Children Still Struggle

  It has been years since northern Uganda's children had to troop to town centres at night for safety from abduction by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), and most have moved on... Read more »

January 6

• Uganda: From Emergency Aid to Early Recovery in Northern Uganda [analysis]

  Fleets of NGO-owned 4x4s crisscross northern Uganda, as they did during the region's two-decade war, but now, rather than provide emergency relief, they are supporting economic... Read more »

December 18, 2012

• Uganda: Aid Cuts Threaten Vital Public Services

  Hundreds of millions of dollars in donor aid have been withheld from Uganda in recent months, threatening post-war rehabilitation in the northern region and key public investments... Read more »

December 14, 2012

• Uganda: New Law Fails to Ease Oil Concerns

  Uganda's parliament recently passed a law to govern the exploration, development and production of the country's estimated three billion barrels of oil, a resource whose extraction... Read more »

November 30, 2012

• Uganda: Increasing Support to Survivors of Sexual Assault

  A new initiative in which qualified village nurses and clinical officers provide free medical examinations and counselling services to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence... Read more »

November 28, 2012

• Uganda: Gulu Goes Green, With Help From Some Cows

  As traditional sources of energy, such as paraffin and wood fuel, grow more expensive, smallholders in northern Uganda's Gulu are embracing biogas - a renewable energy source... Read more »

November 20, 2012

• Africa: Global Fund Integrates Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria

  The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved the integration of the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm) into its grant management and core... Read more »

November 16, 2012

• Uganda: Fresh Ebola Outbreak Burdens Health System [opinion]

  Uganda's Ministry of Health says a fresh outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever - the second in the country this year - is straining an already over-stretched health system. Read more »

November 1, 2012

• Uganda: Funding, Health System Constraints Impede Marburg Control

  Uganda's Ministry of Health is facing serious financial and health system constraints as it battles to contain an outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever that has killed eight... Read more »

October 30, 2012

• Uganda: Nodding Syndrome Symptoms Controlled, Hunt for Cure Continues

  Their conditions improving, nearly all of the children admitted to health centres for nodding syndrome have now been released, according to Uganda's Ministry of Health; less... Read more »

• Central African Republic: Victims Cry Foul Over Uganda's LRA Strategy

  Uganda's practice of pardoning and then integrating into its military captured or surrendered members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), getting them to hunt down their former... Read more »

October 24, 2012

• Uganda: A Brief History of Haemorrhagic Fever

  Uganda's Ministry of Health is calling for calm as it tries to trace members of the public who may have had contact with people who have died from or been infected by an outbreak... Read more »