It is now illegal to encourage the use of condoms in southeast Nigeria's Anambra State. The state government has also banned the advocacy and distribution of other forms of contraceptives including IUDs (intrauterine device) and any other "un-natural" birth control.

The chairperson of the parliamentary committee on HIV/AIDS Dr. Elioda Tumwesigye has advised the AIDS information centre to start door to door HIV/AIDS testing to enable a bigger population know their sero status.

At least 10 potential cases of forced sterilisation of HIV-positive women would be heading for the courts.

THE fifth National AIDS Conference took place at Speke Resort Munyonyo recently. The theme was "Evidence-driven action for greater success" with the slogan, "Moving beyond past achievements." Moving beyond the past achievements calls for going beyond the ABC (Abstinence, Be

IN a profession where many practitioners fly out for greener pastures at the slightest opportunity, he remained steadfast, resisting temptation for wealth that would have seen him render his meticulous service to another nation.

Some headway is being made in the church when it comes to the national response to HIV and AIDS and this headway needs to be maintained.

Two years ago, adversity brought three young women in Nairobi's Dandora estate together.

In line with international best practices, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has proposed a new initiative that will see its services launched on an electronic platform accessible through the Internet. The new product known, as E-NHIS Enterprise

World Health Organi-sation (WHO) has said a new study has shown that Oncho-cersiasis (River Blindness) could be eliminated in Africa.

A BOY, no older than 14, addresses a conference at Speke Resort Munyonyo, Kampala. He moves with poise as he tries to inspire participants, most of them much older than him, to believe in children.

A rehabilitation hospital for children with disabilities, worth $7m (about sh11.9b), is to be constructed at Kisubi in Wakiso district.

Sakeholders at a workshop in Abeokuta, Ogun State, have called for reduction of maternal mortality rate in the country by 75 per cent before 2015.

A team carrying out research on the use of Luwoko plant to fight malaria believes its dry seeds can kill mosquito larvae when thrown in stagnant water.

Today is World Health Day. It will be celebrated under the theme, Protecting Health from Climate Change. Below, Conan Businge explains how climatic change is a health threat to Uganda

Bauchi State Government has earmarked N540m as initial contribution for the enrollment of its 25,000 workforce into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

FURNITURE firm, Hwan Sung has helped three heart patients get surgery in South Korea. The beneficiaries are Samuel Erioru, 6, who is suffering from congenital heart disease, William Ntulume, 20, and Agatha Nekesa, 17, with a rheumatic heart disease.

United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) yesterday in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, called on the country's political leaders, from the federal, state to the local government levels to fashion out a policy framework aimed at reducing the increasing rate of infant