Building resilience in survivors of sexual exploitation: the role of children in activities implemented by NGOs in Ugandadoi:10.1080/17450128.2022.2072989Child participationrecoveryresilienceChildren are increasingly affected by sexual exploitation (SEC), and the subsequent hardships arising out threaten their...
Vanessa Nakate, Goodwill Ambassador for Uganda UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors are appointed by the Executive Director of UNICEF and serve in a voluntary capacity. They participate in events, media interviews, and other activities to raise awareness and mobilize support for UNICEF’s work. UNICEF Funding...
There is an urgent imperative to build a global evidence base that can fill this knowledge gap; collaboration and alignment of research capacities and research agenda amongst academia, LGBTQI+ organisations and child rights NGOs could create the necessary momentum. Follow up to support the ...
Chapter 2, titled "Civil Conflict, Sexual Violence, and HIV/AIDS: Challenges for Children in Sierra Leone," uses personal accounts to illustrate how young girls in Sierra Leone are abducted and raped by members of the military and some NGOs. The authors make several recommendations to alleviate...
Despite significant distribution of insecticide-treated net (ITNs) by the Government of Uganda to refugees, malaria is major cause of mortality and morbidity among children under five years in refugee settlements. This highlights the persistent challenge
For example, the Northern war in Uganda has contributed towards CHHs in that country, as the Rwandese genocide of 1994 also accounts for the same phenomenon in Rwanda (Van Breda, 2010). Although there is no exact statistics on the extent and magnitude of CHHs at the global level, scholars ...
Working in partnership to deliver milk to school children in Uganda New school milk programme in Bangladesh A new school milk programme is launched in Bangladesh with purpose of contributing to the health of children, improving school attendance and dairy development New school milk programme ...
The community children were recruited from the same households or neighbourhoods as the children with severe malaria. Methods Study participants This was a prospective cohort study performed at Jinja Regional Referral, Jinja and Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, in eastern and central Uganda,...
(S-muac): W = children with WHZ < −3Z and MUAC > 115 mm (S-whz): B = children with “Both” MUAC < 115 mm and WHZ < −3Z (S-both): subscript CL = the proportions of the total case load of SAM that are in categories M, W and B: ...
The Children of War: Child Soldiers as Victims and Participants in the Sudan Civil War The use of child soldiers in the Sudan Civil War has shattered the accepted understanding of why children join armies. Thousands of children signed up to participate in Africa's longest running civil war, ye...