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Ntinda, Kampala – The Uganda Network on Law, Ethics and HIV/AIDS (UGANET) in association with the National Forum of People Living with HIV/AIDS Networks in Uganda (NAFOPHANU) on August 11th, 2021 conducted a training session for cadres themed, Monitoring Stigma and Discrimination Reduction in Uganda. The one-day training was held at NAFOPHANU offices in Mengo, Kampala and was attended by 14 people living with HIV (PLHIV), who will be teaching or counselling fellow PLHIV. They were drawn from the Eastern, Western, Northern, South-Western, West Nile, Central and Karamoja regions of... Read More

Ntinda, Kampala – Constitutional Court judge Christopher Izama Madrama has given the Attorney General of the Government of Uganda two days to submit a formal reply to the HIV Constitutional Petition No. 4 of 2016, after it came up for mention in the court on August 12th, 2021. In 2016, the Uganda Network on Law, Ethics and HIV/AIDS (UGANET) with the support of the Civil Society organization (CSO) HIV Law Coalition, filed a petition seeking for the constitutional court’s interpretation of three clauses in the HIV Prevention and Control Act... Read More

It may be a very long time before the adverse effects of COVID-19 are overturned. Unfortunately, some may never be reversed for several girls who have lost their innocence at an early age in Bulange sub county in Namutumba district. Statistics recorded by the midwife at Bulange health center III indicate that a total of 321 girls between the ages of fifteen and eighteen reported to the health facility for the first time to seek antenatal care. The young mothers reported to the health facility between the months of March... Read More

In addition to day to day challenges, Paralegals are key in handling complex conflicts in their communities. This is so because of their close connection and proximity to the communities, but also, because of the the trust they have earned from the community members overtime. Joan is a five-year-old girl whose father Mugabe, chased her mother away from their home when she was only a baby. The man equally sold the family property on which they lived after he chased the subsequent women he married after Joan’s mother left. Joan... Read More