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Victor Amos Bamutana. -Orphans and Vulnerable Children supervisor      When COVID-19 hit the world, many countries went under lockdowns including Uganda. Children are at home away from schools where they would meet with teachers and be protected from abuse and domestic violence in homes.  Many have been kept away from social capital services such as social […]

The 23rd International AIDS Conference – known as AIDS 2020 – has been hosted in San Francisco and Oakland, US, from 6-10 July 2020 with the theme, Resilience. AIDS 2020 will gather more than 20,000 participants from more than 170 countries. Reach Out Mbuya Parish HIV/AIDS Initiative has been represented by Michael Buwembo -Community Support

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

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

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

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

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

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