A study of HIV-positive people in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda has found that more than a quarter have “recombinant” viruses that might threaten both treatment and prevention efforts.

On a humid evening at a downtown Kampala hotel, I began my conversation with Amanda Onapito only to be interrupted when three cockroaches swam onto our table, one sliding into my juice cocktail.

“Children don’t vote,” said Dr Robert Mwadime, of Uganda Action for Nutrition, at a session on the subject before the three-day African Union (AU) meeting opened in Kampala, Uganda.

When Allan Paton penned his novel, “Cry the Beloved Country,” it was hailed for clearly mirroring the racial divide against a downtrodden populace.

When a report in May revealed that the Ugandan government was concerned about reports that, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) were reorganizing in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), there was ample reason for skepticism.

The Obama administration is supporting Kenya’s draft constitution, which has a clause for “access to reproductive health” by providing funds through the United States Agency for International Development.

A Ugandan draft policy recommending that HIV-positive children be informed of their status by the age of 10 has drawn mixed reactions from health workers.

The Good Shepherd Home is an orphanage sitting on a piece of land in Kisenyi Zone, one of Kampala’s slums. It houses several people with disabilities, ranging from toddlers to octogenarians.

Last Monday, President Barack Obama signed the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, the culmination of years of campaigning by advocacy groups like Resolve Uganda and Invisible Children.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday, upon measures that have direct impact on the United States relations with several countries in Central and Eastern Africa.

Parliamentarians from all over Africa are pushing for a continent-wide ban on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and are calling on the UN to pass a General Assembly resolution appealing for a global FGM/C ban, as it violates human rights, they say.

From dingy street corners in Uganda’s capital to the United Nations’ gleaming headquarters in New York, East African sex workers are standing up for their rights by challenging the political and social systems that discriminate against them.