Tag Archives: children

Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 89,000 children under the age of five and 10,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women in the nine districts of Karamoja are in dire need of immediate assistance due to severe malnutrition. This distressing revelation comes from the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have initiated a search for 20 children who were reported missing by their parents following the Martyr’s Day celebrations at Namugongo shrines on Saturday. Caroline Kushemererwa, the head of the Child and Family Protection Unit in the Kampala Metropolitan Policing area, said that most …

Village hosts former street children, most of them Karimajong Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Airtel Uganda under their Airtel Cares Program has extended a donation of assorted food, household and personal effects items to Masulita Children’s Home. The donation worth Sh55million was received by the Board Chairperson, Olive Birungi Lumonya. …

As desperate civilians and expatriates flee the country, local midwives are stepping up and helping pregnant women bring new life into the world despite the intense clashes. SPECIAL FEATURE | BIRD AGENCY | In the heart of a war-torn Sudan, an ancient tradition is being rekindled amidst the chaos: midwifery. …

African Vaccination Week and World Immunization Week (24–30 April) theme is “The Big Catch-Up”, to reach kids who missed vaccinations, and to restore and strengthen routine immunization programmes Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | An estimated 33 million children will need to be vaccinated in Africa between 2023 and 2025 to …

Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five people have been arrested in Fort Portal for allegedly trafficking 19 children aged between 7-13 years. Vincent Twesige, the Rwenzori West Police Spokesperson, says that Fort Portal Police intercepted a taxi that was ferrying the children from Hima Town Council in Kasese …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Experts are concerned that Uganda may not meet its commitment to defeating HIV as an epidemic by 2030, as children living with the virus struggle to stay on treatment. Michael Byamukama, the Country Director of the Regional Psycho-social Support Initiative (REPSSI), reports that the …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT l The global alliance for vaccine initiative -GAVI says that about 50,000 children in Uganda have never received a single vaccine dose, and therefore remain unprotected against any killer disease. This also makes it almost impossible to eradicate some diseases from the country. For this reason, …

Nearly every minute, a child under five dies of malaria, according to the WHO Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ghana on April 13 became the first country to approve public usage of a new experimental vaccine for children to protect them from malaria. The R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine is a low-dose …

Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women and children in Kalangala district are making fortunes in adding value to some of the neglected residues of the palm oil trees grown in the area. In 2000, the government with support from the International Fund for Agriculture Development-IFAD started mobilizing for the cultivation …