Thirty young farmers from Masaka, Rakai, Lwengo and Bukomansimbi districts participated in a discussion organised by Kitovu Mobile, an anti-AIDS NGO, in Masaka Town last week and revealed some of the main challenges they face. The farmers, who included women, were all aged below 30 years and all had received
Community Empowerment
Masaka HIV patient numbers soar by 170 in less than 12 months
The number of HIV/Aids patients looking for treatment at Bukeeri Health Centre III in Buwunga Sub-county in Masaka District has increased by 170 in less than a year, Daily Monitor has established. Statistics from the health centre indicate that the number of HIV/Aids patients seeking treatment at the centre shot
A Duty to Help One Another
This is a guest post by Charles Matovu, acting CEO of Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organization. As you meander through the hills of the Kanungu District, the dusty roads dotted with potholes, you can’t believe that someone would have thought to lift up the health and social well-being of this remote community.
HIV infections could outstrip access to antiretroviral enrolment by twofold
Sandra Asiimwe was just a baby when her parents died from Aids. But 10 years later she lives, thanks, in part, to medical advances in treating HIV/Aids, and the care of her elderly grandmother Edith Nankabirwa of Byakabanda village in Rakai district. Two years after her parents’ death, Asiimwe’s grandmother