KAMPALA - The Bill Gates Foundation has donated US$15.3m (over sh27b) to Uganda for the implementation of national population programmes focusing on adolescents and HIV/AIDS. The Uganda Population Secretariat director, Dr. Jotham Musinguzi, on Thursday said the donation was in recognition of efforts by the Government t
Kampala (New Vision, May 31, 2000) - The rate of contraceptive use in Uganda is very low due to inadequate education and their inaccessibility. Dr Florence Mirembe, a senior lecturer at Makerere University, said the low usage had led to unsafe motherhood. She said between 4% and 15% of Ugandans use contraceptives and t
Kampala (New Vision, May 10, 2000) - The injection of Ugandan volunteers with the first HIV vaccine to be tested in Africa has been completed, scientists at the Joint Clinical Research Centre said yesterday. Briefing a 12-man Ghanian AIDS delegation, scientists at the centre said the last volunteer received the last in
Kampala (New Vision, May 25, 2000) - President THABO Mbeki of South Africa is presently on a state visit to the USA. He has come under fire for not being more critical of President Mugabe s support for the invasion of white-owned farms but it is on the issue of Aids that the United States sho
Kampala (New Vision, May 20, 2000) - Ugandan scientists will participate in a new international project to develop an inexpensive oral AIDS vaccine for Africa. The development was yesterday announced by scientists in the US-based International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), which is funding the research. Researchers a
Kampala - A virus closely related to the one that causes AIDS has been detected in 80% of the lions sampled in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Dr. Ludwig Siefert, a wildlife health lecturer at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Makerere University, said the bug, named Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV), made lions suc
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