Day of the African Child 2020
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Thank you Shoprite Supermarket Lugogo Branch
By Venus Okello, Reach Out Mbuya HIV/AIDS Initiative (ROM) have been blessed to receive support from men and women with generous hearts. On 25th May and 12th June, 2020 ROM received donations food items from the customers of Shoprite Supermarket Lugogo Branch. The staff and management of Shoprite Supermarket Lugogo Branch have placed a trolley …
Fighting Gender-Based Violence during times of COVID-19.
By Ofwono Opondo, In these times of COVID -19, cases of Gender-Based Violence cases have spiraled due to economic insecurity and poverty-related stress and quarantine of citizens. Whereas the lockdown is meant to control the spread of the Corona Virus, it has created anxiety, fear, and uncertainty in the population leading to an increase of …
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International Candlelight Memorial 2020
Today May 17, Reach Out Mbuya Parish HIV /AIDS Initiative joins the world to commemorate the International Candlelight Memorial. The memorial serves as a community mobilization campaign to raise social consciousness about HIV and AIDS. With almost 38 million people living with HIV in the world today, the memorial is an important intervention for global …
COVID-19 spread among truck drivers, apply targeted approaches used in HIV spread management.
By Rebecca Nantondo Baagala The current statistics from the Ministry of Health indicate a scary rise of COVID -19 imported infections by interstate cargo drivers commonly known as the truckers. As we closed the month of April, cargo drivers accounted for 25 of the total 83 cases recorded in the country. Despite the nation’s commendable …
Help ROM Help others during COVID -19
Today, Reach Out Mbuya Parish HIV/AIDS Initiative received a food donation from the Uganda Tuberculosis Ambassador Bebe Cool through the Defeat TB project. The food relief is meant to support ROM vulnerable TB clients through this period of lockdown caused by the COVID -19 pandemic. Ranked among one of the world’s deadliest airborne diseases, Tuberculosis …
Coach Obua rents bike to deliver HIV medicines to less privileged in total lockdown
By GEORGE KATONGOLE KAMPALA- Since 2007, Godfrey Lubangakene Obua has been on HIV and Aids medication despite diagnosing with the virus since childhood. But it was the support of the late Moses Okurut that made him adhere to the drugs. But he has realised that many HIV-positive people have difficulty in travelling to the clinic …
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ROM strategy for serving our clients during the COVID-19 Corona Virus pandemic.
In light of the current COVID 19 Corona Virus outbreak and following the presidential directives and the Ministry of Health (MOH) guidelines Reach Out Mbuya Parish HIV/AIDS Initiative has developed and implemented this strategy as we closely monitor the updates around the outbreak. We want to ensure we are taking all the precautionary measures to …
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The time is now to end Tuberculosis
WORLD TUBERCULOSIS DAY By Hajjarah Nanteza In this global scare, media is awash with the outbreak of the COVID-19 given the magnitude of its spread across the globe and the number of deaths registered daily. As we lament this calamity, let us not forget the everyday societal struggles we face due to the spread of …
