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The COVID-19 pandemic and attendant restrictions  exacerbated deficiencies in Uganda’s already challenged mental healthcare system. Many people with mental issues could not easily move to get their...

As government continues to lurch from one crisis to another over the Covid-19 virus, another malady burbling below the radar,...

By Evelyn Lirri Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Uganda, Benon Kabale faced challenges accessing health care for his mental...

BY ROBERT MADOI  In April 2021, the Uganda Police Force released a 2020 report that made clear a marked decline in...

A quarter of a century has passed since South Africa became the first country in Africa to farm genetically modified...

Former Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye’s views on Covid-19 have been both prodigious and intensely revealing. A trained physician, the...

By Dr. Stella Nyanzi Although the 1995 Constitution of Uganda stipulates that, “No child shall be deprived by anybody of...

By: Prof. Samuel Sejjaaka  Following two decades of concerted investments by both government and the private sector into especially electricity generation,...

By Ezaruku Draku Franklin The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and inadequate government assistance,...

Uganda’s ailing health sector could creak under the strain of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic as health officials...