Community Development

Fixing Uganda’s mental healthcare

Fixing Uganda’s mental healthcare

FLAVIA NASSAKA March 19, 2019 Health, In The Magazine, Interview, Society catergory Haruna Nyanzi Bujirita is an Addictionologist and consultant in Child and Adolescents Mental Health. He is also CEO of MetroHealth International that’s setting up the country’s first private mental hospital in Ttula-Kawempe…
Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention

Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention

The dramatic success of Gender Studies has rested on three developments: (1) making women’s lives visible, which has also come to mean making all genders more visible; (2) insisting on intersectionality and so complicating the category of gender; (3) analyzing…
How mental illness ravages city slums

How mental illness ravages city slums

Jennifer Nataka Mental illness rarely gets a burst of serious national attention in Uganda. The norm dictates that suspected patients must seek first-line treatment in form of psychological help or see mental-health clinicians. But in Uganda that is a rarity. Some,…