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KAMPALA, Uganda – Uganda continues to face an unprecedented rise in the numbers of teenage pregnancies, with recent statistics showing that over 7000 teenage girls have either been defiled, raped or even impregnated. The situation in the Lango sub region is even worse with thousands of girls having been impregnated and many married off to much older men usually in exchange for small amounts of “bride price.” According to the Executive Director of Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU), Jackson Chekekwo, “The rate of teenage pregnancies in Lango region is as high... Read More

Kampala, Uganda – On December 3rd, 2020, the Uganda Network on Law, Ethics & HIV/AIDS (UGANET) hosted and conducted a live tweet chat on ‘Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic’. The tweet chat, moderated by Immaculate Owomugisha, Head of Advocacy & Litigation at UGANET, aimed to discuss the issue of stigma and discrimination faced by People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in Uganda. HIV-related stigma and discrimination refers to prejudice, negative attitudes and abuse directed at people living with HIV/AIDS. Out of the estimated 1.4 million PLHIV, about 1.1 million are accessing antiretroviral... Read More

KAMPALA, UGANDA – On December 1st 2020, Uganda Network on Law, Ethics & HIV/AIDS (UGANET) commemorated the World AIDS Day hosting a week-long symposium dubbed Core Parliamentary Committee on HIV, TB, and the Law Symposium at the Protea Hotel in Entebbe.   The symposium, organized under the theme; “Creating an Enabling Environment for People Living with HIV and TB – The Role of Members of Parliament”, is the first of its kind that UGANET has held. The event saw over 100 Members of Parliament in attendance. Dora K. Musinguzi, the... Read More

KAMPALA, Uganda – According to the State of the World Population Report 2020, an estimated four million girls worldwide will undergo FGM, while each year 33,000 teenage girls are forced into marriage. Here in Uganda, child marriage cases have and continue to be high. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative in Uganda, Alain Sibenaler, “The figure was at 49 percent in the past and remains high, while FGM national prevalence is low at below 0.1 percent, but in the three districts of Kapchorwa, Bukwo and Kween incidences... Read More