Guardian News: Huge unmet need for contraceptives in Uganda, by Joseph Malinga and Liz Ford:Uganda has the highest unmet need for contraception in east Africa, but lacks the resources to address the problem Sarah Arawo is aware of the
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Uganda’s Plan to Distribute Female Condoms Encounters Resistance from Funders Including PEPFAR
Time Magazine (8/30): The Battle in Uganda Over Female Condoms, by Nick Wadhams: On the surface, it seems like a fine idea; reproductive rights groups certainly think so. In July, the Ugandan government announced that, using cash from the…
Uganda Moves to Ban Female Genital Mutilation
Salon.com (Broadsheet): Uganda to outlaw female genital mutilation, by Lynn Harris: Let’s make sure this one doesn’t get lost in this week’s Palin/Jackson shuffle: Uganda has moved to outlaw female genital mutilation. “God knew what he was doing when he…
Uganda Controls Major Disease Outbreaks Including Botulism
We often fear diseases that might reach our shores from Africa. We therefore do not want to overlook progress being made by health officials in Africa. One such report comes this week from Uganda. The New Vision website reports:
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Lots of executions in the US and Iran (and other death penalty news)
Main January 23, 2009Lots of executions in the US and Iran (and other death penalty news)Barack Obama has been President for less than three full days, but already there have been three executions in the United States during his time…
Botulism Outbreak Now Underway In Uganda
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta have confirmed the conclusion of the in-country Minister of Health: Uganda has an outbreak of botulism to deal with.
According to The New Vision, which claims to be Uganda’s top…
Obama Expected to Reverse Pro-Abstinence/Anti-Abortion Approaches to Global Funding for Family Planning and AIDS Prevention
Bloomberg News: Condoms Trump Abstinence in Obama Global AIDS Policy, by Jason Gale & John Lauerman: President-elect Barack Obama will reverse U.S. family-planning and AIDS-prevention strategies that have long linked global funding to anti-abortion and abstinence education, a public-health…
Some Charities In Uganda Alleged To Fund Rebels
At the Fourth International NGO Accountability Conference on Tuesday, Uganda’s Internal Affairs State Minister, Matia Kasaija, stated that intelligence reports have shown that some charities in Uganda fund rebels.“This is very dangerous. We have enough evidence on this. We shall…
Doctors in Uganda Say Abortion Should Be Made Legal
allAfrica.com: Uganda: Doctors Want Abortion Made Legal, by Chris Ocowun:PARLIAMENT should pass a law allowing inducedabortion among young school girls in the war-ravaged north to reducethe high death rate of expectant mothers, medical doctors in Gulu haveappealed.”Fewer girls die…
