Most At Risk Populations' Society in Uganda (MARPS in Uganda)

COVID-19 Response and Recovery Plan-CREP (2020-2030) Theme: To Empower Communities to Thrive Sub-theme: Motivation Rooted in Resilience   Our work with Champions (Community Mobilisers) and as a team makes it possible to mobilise a large group of beneficiaries to form enterprising networks. We run a resource center; a virtual work platform on which we are able to disseminate information; have developed small-scale businesses run by our beneficiaries including Champions. We have been able to collect money which we used to pay for office space, administrative and other costs.  However, to enable us sustain the progress we have achieved it requires money to support such an initiative. This is why we came up with the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Plan-CREP 2020-2030. The seed money we intend to use will be used to: make savings; to pay subscriptions for Cooperatives; subsistence; utilities; rent; reinvestments. The Advocacy Network Africa (AdNetA) Board of Di...

Importance of Review Meetings: These review meetings are so important to The Nature Network Group because they are part of her mission.  We are a Family Based Therapy Model and these review meetings are part of the execution of that model. We can meet physically or virtually.    When we cannot meet physically, we can use the opportunity to read the minutes or reports via Google docs, through WhatsApp groups or text messages. The idea is to promote continuity, innovation and resilience. It continues to be the avenue to refocus our energies and remind ourselves of the tasks to self and community. These review meetings are the backbone to uplifting conduct and setting the pace for mutual growth and development. It is at these meetings that we look at progress and measure it. We are proud about our meetings and nothing can stop us from reporting or showing up for them. We own our space and we are committed to making it work.

COVID-19 and How It Impacts My Life: Uganda Queer Short Stories - Desert Island Series Henrietta The Desert Island Series are about COVID-19 and daily activities of life among the LGBTIQQ of Uganda. These are radical compositions countering deficit narratives used to justify othering, marginalization, externalisation and peripheralisation. This is an art of crafting, claiming and consolidating space for Queer persons to talk about, demand and recognise how they can promote self-determination and quality life. In the stories we celebrate innovations, executions and translations that culminate into lived realities and destinies. Moderator and Interviewer: Tom Muyunga-Mukasa Featuring: Any person willing to tell a story Synopsis Meet Henry, an adult male-to-female Transgender Ugandan Person, a Clinical Psychologist and Life-span Counsellor. The father is a prince from Buganda Kingdom, an Anglican Church member and the mother is also Anglican heading the Mothe...

THE INDEPENDENT |  "The COVID-19 pandemic is testing health care and disaster management systems of countries and the agility of policy responses to effectively handle a public health catastrophe. Since the first reported case in Africa on February 14, countries in the region have responded to the disease with varying levels of success, with many countries taking the lead in various ways. For example, on March 4, Nigeria was the first African country to sequence the SARS-CoV-2 genome. South Africa is now leading the continent in testing per capita—27,485 tests per million people as of July 1—currently ranked 19th globally. According to the American research Group, Brookings Institute, from Cape Town to Cairo, many countries have seized the opportunity to combine both existing emergency health care protocols and innovation to improve response effectiveness, from building affordable ventilators to using digital and emerging technologies for tracking and other economic activ...

Geneva, Switzerland | XINHUA |  "There will be no return to the "old normal" for the foreseeable future as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and too many countries are still headed in the wrong direction, the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday. "The virus remains public enemy number one, but the actions of many governments and people do not reflect this," said WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a regular briefing on Monday. He noted that mixed messages from leaders are undermining trust, which is the most critical ingredient of any response, while the only aim of the virus is to find people to infect. Things are going to "get worse and worse and worse," he warned, unless governments communicate clearly with their citizens and roll out a comprehensive strategy focused on suppressing transmission and saving lives, while populations follow the basic public health principles of ph...

COVID-19 and How It Impacts My Life: Uganda Queer Short Stories - Desert Island Series Bernard The Desert Island Series are about COVID-19 and daily activities of life among the LGBTIQQ of Uganda. These are radical compositions countering deficit narratives used to justify othering, marginalization, externalisation and peripheralisation. This is an art of crafting, claiming and consolidating space for Queer persons to talk about, demand and recognise how they can promote self-determination and quality life. In the stories we celebrate innovations, executions and translations that culminate into lived realities and destinies. Moderator and Interviewer: Tom Muyunga-Mukasa Featuring: Any person willing to tell a story Synopsis Meet Bin Suleiman or as many call him Bernard, an adult male gay bottom Ugandan with many older siblings as he puts it. The father is Moslem and the mother is from Catholic. Bernard chose his mother’s religion later in life and goes by...

AIDS 2020 Virtual Conference Planning Meeting Outcomes I hope this finds you well. We need to organise ourselves into a committee of three persons who would then design the best approach to conducting the AIDS 2020; Virtual Conference Event. The committee Members: Wasswa, Sulah and Tom. There is need to have the communications team to provide helping hands as we need to rearrange the venue to suit the event. We anticipate that from 7:00 pm-8:00 pm on 29th June 2020 to 15 th July 2020, we shall set aside time to make presentations which will be recorded and disseminated thereafter.   So, we need to find time to make rehearsals as well as make required preparations. We need to identify the needs; resources and persons to do particular roles. Summary Activities: 1.       Establish the “Refugees Organised Against AIDS (ROAA) space 2.       Draw a schedule 3.       Identify roles, r...