Demand for family planning services worldwide is said to be growing as two trends converge: population growth and wider acceptance of contraceptive use.

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni is tomorrow expected to open the second global HIV/AIDS implementers' meeting at the Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala.

AWARD-WINNING gospel acapella outfit Vabati VaJehovah will take part in the second edition of the HIV and Aids Exposition to be held in the capital next month.

Despite grappling with challenges, the health sector has made considerable progress towards the attainment of the country's Vision 2030.

In Kenya, many health workers suffering from TB or HIV/Aids would rather die in silence than share the news of their sickness with fellow employees.

TREATING BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS using common orally-administered antibiotics can help reduce the risk of contracting HIV/Aids, a study by a team of American and Kenyan researchers has established.

A recent probe launched by the Senate into the financial operations of an NGO is, to some extent, long overdue.

THE second HIV Implementers meeting gets underway at the Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala tomorrow till Saturday. The first was held in Kigali Rwanda last year.

WITH signs of global warming being witnessed, energy efficiency and carbon emissions have emerged as the most important areas that need to be addressed to slow down environmental destruction.

WHILE statistics show that the maternal and infant mortality rates improved between 2000 and 2008, latest data points at stagnation. Over 137 children out of every 1,000 born in the country die before their fifth birthday, while 76 infants out

THE Government, with the help of the World Health Organisation, will soon conduct an aerial spraying in tsetse flies infested areas to curb the spread of sleeping sickness and nagana.

Iganga District is short of medical personnel to handle the large numbers of patients who access its 57 health units, District Health Officer David Muwanguzi has said.

The City of Cape Town has warned motorists that some inbound lanes at Hospital Bend (N2 right hand lane, and M3 inbound left hand lanes) will be closed to traffic due to major road works.

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael O. Leavitt go on testing for HIV at a mobile, voluntary testing site set up in Kigali.

THE Conservative Party leader, John Ken Lukyamuzi, over the weekend moved his campaign against the use of DDT in the fight against malaria to Lango sub-region.

AROUND the world, more than 6,800 people become infected with HIV every day, and more than 5,700 die from AIDS daily mostly because of inadequate access to HIV prevention and treatment services.

Pharmaceutical giant Merck's South African subsidiary, Merck Sharpe & Dohme (MSD), has granted licences to the local operations of Indian firm Aurobindo and Enalani subsidiary Cipla-Medpro to import generic versions of its AIDS drug, efavirenz.