Uganda Youth and Adolescent Health Forum (UYAHF) continues to use different platforms and channels, including mass media, to bring together various stakeholders to discuss and sensitize the community on key SRHR challenges that affect adolescent girls and young women. On the 8th of April, we hosted a panel of young people, a medical expert from…
Prior to the Live Your Dream Youth Camp for the northern Karamoja region, a team from UYAHF conducted a one-day district stakeholders orientation meeting in Kotido district. The meeting held on 6th April 2022 was intended to share in detail the Live Your Dream campaign objectives and how they interact with not only Kotido district…
Young people in the Karamoja districts of Kotido, Kabong, and Abim have been urged to participate in government livelihoods development programs such as the parish development model (PDM), emyoga, and NAADS in order to financially empower themselves and desist from practices such as cattle rustling and other environmentally degrading activities like charcoal burning as a…
The Assistant Commissioner in charge of Reproductive and Infant Health, Dr. Richard Mugahi, has commended the Uganda youth and adolescents’ health forum for coming up with an innovative app, the Pulaniki Mobile App, that seeks to break the barrier and ease access to essential SRHR services and information. He said this while launching the mobile…
On Friday, March 28th, 2022, the national youth steering committee for ICPD and FP2030 converged at the Uganda Youth and Adolescents Health Forum (UYAHF) youth hub to review the progress of the ICPD25 youth road map/action plan. The meeting, attended by 10 young people from different civil society organizations, was a follow up on the…
On March 18th, 2022, the UYAHF Adolescents’ health (ADH) clinic-Mbale joined Mbale district to commemorate International Women’s Day. The celebration, held as a post women’s day celebration at the district headquarters in Busoba, kicked off with a melodious band procession led by the district officials and joined in by local leaders, religious leaders, different women’s…
Following the acquisition of the 7-year grant from Care International Uganda to implement the SheSOARS project in Terego district, the Uganda Youth and Adolescent Health Forum (UYAHF) joined other Care International Uganda partners on March 15th at the Desert Breeze hotel in Arua district for a district inception meeting. The half-day meeting brought together 26…
On March 18th, 2022, the Uganda youth and adolescent health forum held an orientation for over 10 new change champions who were recently brought on board. The meeting held at the UYAHF youth hub was organized to brief the new change champions about the UYAHF mandate, their role as change champions, some of the activities…
As part of the preparation to kick start the Live your dream project in Karamoja sub-region, a team from Uganda Youth and Adolescent Health Forum held several courtesy visits to Kabong, Kotido, and Abim districts of Northern Karamoja from 14th to 17th March 2022 The visits were meant for UYHAF to familiarise itself with the…
Hon. Jessica Nsungwa, the commissioner for maternal and child health (MCH), Ministry of Health Uganda, has called upon development partners and advocates working towards promoting sexual reproductive health rights (SRHR) and gender equality to incorporate a mindset change element in their advocacy while implementing projects if they are to challenge the restrictive cultural norms that…
