A study report on Land, Gender and Poverty Eradication commissioned by the Ministry of Lands, Water and Environment revealed that unequal domestic land tenure relations contributed significantly to instability in families, thus customary protection for women has weakened contributing to large numbers of intra-familial disputes related to land.

Must have expert skills in managing reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programs to work with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) Call to Action Project (CTA). The project allows international health care facilities, non-governmental organizations, and community-based organizations to apply for funds that will help implement programs to prevent MTCT of HIV.

There is little evidence to show that HIV/AIDS education in schools has achieved significant behaviour change, despite a good level of knowledge among students. A lack of time, resources and training mean that curriculum based education as well as counselling and peer education are inadequate, says a report by the African Symposium on the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the education sector in Botswana, Malawi and Uganda.

The Ugandan independent 'Monitor' daily newspaper, whose operations have been suspended over a controversial story, is now facing court action on charges of "publishing false information" regarding sensitive state security matters, a senior army official said on Monday.

Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has attacked a Sudanese refugee camp, for the second time this year, killing five government soldiers and burning about 65 huts.

The Chief Justice, Benjamin Odoki, has conceded that corruption exists in the Judiciary but said the problem was not as massive as portrayed.

The Refugee Eligibility Committee and the UN High Commissioner of Refugees are faced with over 1, 000 Rwandan refugees seeking political asylum in Uganda. The mainly Hutu ethnic Rwandans are currently camped in the southeastern districts of Kabale, Kanungu, and Kisoro.

For years, she wrote a column called The Secret Diary of Christina, about a young, single woman living in Kampala, which ran in Uganda's The New Vision. Then she started writing a series of children's stories, The Adventures of Tema, which were published in the Sunday Vision for several years, and proved to be very popular. Now all that writing has come to fruition. Last week, Susan Mugizi Kajura was announced the winner of the $3,000 (Sh 240,000) Most Promising New Children's Writer Award at the Macmillan Children's Literature Awards, 2002.

The Ugandan army last week ordered civilians displaced by rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacks to return to government-protected camps.

The Ugandan government has established a fund that will allow all HIV/AIDS groups to contribute toward the cost of maintaining the Ugandan AIDS Commission, a government-sponsored committee that coordinates and evaluates HIV/AIDS-related projects.

Forty customs officers of the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) are being investigated for conniving with car importers to fleece the Government of revenue by under-declaring and under-valuing motor-vehicles.

Over 2,000 children fathered by Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) soldiers are estimated to have been left behind in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), The New Vision, the Ugandan government-owned newspaper, reported on Tuesday from the northwestern DRC city of Gbadolite.

Bilateral relations between Sudan and Uganda have not been threatened by an incident this week in which Sudanese military planes bombed a Ugandan military detachment in southern Sudan, a Sudanese diplomat has said.

Rwanda and the DR Congo will soon have the parks along their common borders controlled under the same management to promote conservation of wildlife, tourism and peace.

Effective treatment of curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is one of the few strategies available to reduce the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Many people with STIs seek treatment from private practitioners. Why are patients turning to the private sector for help? Do they receive adequate care?

The commission of inquiry into alleged corruption in the Uganda Revenue Authority has found that corrupt officials are not penalised. "Tolerance of corruption is what has made URA what it is today," an official said.

Adolescence Reproductive Health Organizations have asked the government to include Adolescence Sexual Reproductive Health (ASRH) programmes in the current schools curriculum to enable the HIV/AIDS message reach all students.

Tuberculosis is the leading infectious disease cause of death in women globally. Reports have suggested that responses to tuberculosis may differ between men and women. Researchers investigated gender related differences in the presentation and one year outcomes of HIV-infected adults with initial episodes of pulmonary tuberculosis in Uganda. While differences existed between males and females at presentation, the outcomes at one year after the initiation of tuberculosis treatment were similar in Uganda.

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank's debt relief initiatives have failed to help Uganda sustainably manage its foreign debt as its creditors outside the European Union declined to agree to relief terms spelt out by the Bretton Woods institutions. Uganda says the debt had instead increased. It is currently estimated at $3.6 billion.

The International Monetary Fund has set tough conditions for Uganda under a new aid deal approved last week by the fund's board. Among the terms that came with a $17.8m (Shs 32bn) aid support is a requirement that the government submits to the Cabinet a plan to reduce its expenditure by 31 December.