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As part of the ongoing Customer Service Month, Housing Finance Bank has held a community health camp in partnership with C-Care at St. Peter’s Church of Uganda, Katanga in Wandegeya. The event aimed to bring essential health services closer to the community by providing convenient access to medical check-ups, preventive screenings, and wellness advice within a familiar and easily accessible …

By Amiri Wabusimba. Every election cycle across Africa paints familiar picture candidates traversing towns and villages unveiling manifestos, and promising transformative leadership. For incumbents, it’s a moment of accountability, a chance to highlight achievements and justify continuity. For challengers, it’s a platform to spotlight the gaps left unaddressed. Yet, beneath the applause and rhetoric, one recurring theme dominates political conversations: …

Yesterday marked a significant milestone at Muyembe Health Centre with the official commissioning of medical equipment lobbied and donated by NRM flag bearers, Bulambuli Constituency Biara Emmanuel Wepukhulu and Woman MP NRM flagbearer, Hon. Sarah Wekomba.  The event drew prominent government officials and dignitaries from across Bulambuli.  In a notable gesture, Biara pledged to renovate the entire ward where patients …

By Kabuye Ronald The Rotary Club of Mengo on Monday received a pledged donation of one standard maternal bed from Rotary District 9214 Governor Christine Kyeyune Kawooya. The donation was officially delivered during the club’s weekly meeting at Pope Paul Hotel in Ndeeba, Lubaga Division, Kampala District. District 9214 covers both Uganda and Tanzania, and Governor Kawooya had previously committed …

The Wildlife and Utilities Court in Makindye has sentenced three government health workers to four years in prison each after finding them guilty of stealing and illegally possessing over 64,800 doses of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs meant for public health facilities. The trio — Kibalya Ronald Nditusawa, Obema Stanley, and Isanga Umaru Iddi — were arrested in November 2024 by the …

Apac – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pledged a sweeping health sector improvement package for Apac District, promising new facilities, upgrades, and essential equipment as part of his government’s next term agenda. Addressing a campaign rally in Apac on Friday, Museveni said the NRM government had already expanded health services across the district, noting that 10 out of 12 sub-counties …

Apac – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pledged a major health sector boost for Apac District, promising new facilities, upgrades, and vital equipment as part of his government’s next term agenda. Speaking during his campaign rally in Apac on Friday, Museveni said the NRM government had already made significant strides in expanding health services across the district, noting that out …

LGBT Voice Tanzania calls on the state to protect all queer people Two Tanzanian men with rainbow flags. (Photo courtesy of LGBT Voice Tanzania) A report from the LGBTQ+ advocacy group LGBT Voice Tanzania describes the destruction that systemic homophobia is wreaking on LGBTQ+ people in the East African state. Below is a summary of the report’s findings and calls …

By Kabuye Ronald  The Uganda Journalists Association (UJA) has condemned Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Robina Nabbanja and Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Dr. Diana Atwine for allegedly intimidating and ordering the arrest of journalist David Mwesigwa after he reported on dire conditions in government health facilities in Mukono and Kayunga districts. UJA Condemns PM Nabbanja Over Arrest Order of Journalist …

KAMPALA Under a white tent, at a table filled with brushes, canvases and splashes of color, Aloyo Irene quietly sits, her face smiling and her eyes radiating welcome, inviting each person to pick up a brush and begin. There are no rules, no judgments, no expectations. Just freedom. At only 27, Aloyo is a rising Ugandan visual artist who paints, …