Uganda

Food insecurity is driving women in Africa into sex work, increasing HIV risk

10:06am November 11, 2022

by Seyma Bayram

A study found that giving direct food support to women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa cut their risk of contracting HIV by 64%, because it alleviated the pressure to engage in high-risk sex.

Students learn about Ebola in class at St. Claire Primary School in Kampala, Uganda. Schools will be closing early because of Ebola outbreak. Kids in Uganda have already missed two years of school due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Uganda ends school year early as it tries to contain growing Ebola outbreak

7:00am November 10, 2022

by Max Barnhart

Since the outbreak began in September, eight children have died — and there is no approved vaccine. But doctors are hopeful that public health measures may be enough to stop the spread.

Dr. Benjamin Black in front of the Gondama Referral Center in Sierra Leone, where he worked during the Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016. The center treated children and women in urgent need of obstetric and gynecological care. As the outbreak exploded, the center decided to stop admitting pregnant women, a decision that still weighs on Black.

A doctor's Ebola memoir is all too timely with a new outbreak in Uganda

6:29pm October 28, 2022

by Susan Brink

Dr. Benjamin Black talks about Belly Woman: Birth, Blood and Ebola — the inside story of what it was like to face a terrifying epidemic in West Africa.

Doctors walk in the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda, on Sept. 29. Ugandan health officials have declared an Ebola outbreak in several regions of the country.

Travelers coming to the U.S. from Uganda will face enhanced screening for Ebola

5:36pm October 06, 2022

by Halisia Hubbard

With an outbreak of the deadly disease declared in Uganda, travelers who have been to the African country within 21 days of arriving in the U.S. will be subject to enhanced screening.

Joel Joseph in the clothing shop where he worked with a friend during the pandemic.

Whatever happened to the teens who endured the world's longest COVID school closure?

1:41pm September 01, 2022

Ugandan schools were shut for nearly 2 years due to the pandemic. High schoolers were glad to see the shutdown end early this year. But for many, school fees stand in the way of a return to class.

Kusemererwa Jonathan Henry, Joel Joseph (left and middle) and a friend pose for a photo on their way home from school. During the lockdown, they missed spending time in school together and would walk to visit each other.

PHOTOS: Teen dreams and disappointments after the world's longest COVID school closure

8:02am February 19, 2022

Schools in Uganda were shut nearly 2 years due to the pandemic. Now they're open again, although millions of kids won't go back. We speak to 6 teens about their plans and hopes.

Climate activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye speaks at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen in 2019. She and a group of Ugandan activists are calling on high-income countries to commit to bigger and faster emission cuts ahead of COP26, the climate change s

A climate change disaster led this shy 24-year-old from Uganda into activism

11:56am November 02, 2021

by Lauren Sommer

When Hilda Flavia Nakabuye was a girl, a severe storm flooded her family's farm. Now she realizes that climate change was a factor — and she's become an advocate for change.

Zambian neurosurgeon, John Baptist Mukasa, passed away on TKTK.

Pandemic Loss: Pioneering Ugandan Neurosurgeon Was A 'Servant Of The People'

7:23am July 17, 2021

by Adela Wu

John Baptist Mukasa is one of the 4 million-plus people around the globe who have died because of this pandemic. His death is a reminder of the devastating toll of COVID-19.

An oxygen cylinder plant in Kampala, Uganda. The Ugandan army has started producing oxygen for state-run hospitals to ease the burden existing plants as COVID-19 cases — and demand for oxygen for severe illness — keep rising.

Health & Safety

Africa Is Running Out Of Oxygen

7:41am June 24, 2021

by Jason Beaubien

As COVID surges, so does demand for oxygen. And oxygen manufacturing plants simply can't keep up. That's bad news not only for severely ill COVID-19 patients but others in need, including newborns.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has been in power since 1986. His police chief has warned that anyone causing trouble on election day "will regret being born." Museveni is facing a formidable electoral challenge from Bobi Wine, who has been arrested mu

World News

Uganda's Ruler Museveni Defends Violent Crackdown In Bid For 6th Term

4:20pm January 12, 2021

by Eyder Peralta

President Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, spoke to NPR ahead of Thursday's election. His main challenger, Bobi Wine, said Tuesday the military had killed his driver and his home had been raided.