Conflict & Justice
GlobalPost
March 22, 2017
The Kajo Keji Health Training Institute was born out of a dream of improving the health and lives of residents of South Sudan, the world's youngest nation. After gunmen attacked the school last September, it seemed likely to become a casualty of a three-year civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people and sent more than 3 million fleeing from their homes. Now, like hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese, the school is rebuilding across the border in Uganda and waiting for peace to return to South Sudan.
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Health & Medicine
Part IV: The Infectious Connection
PRI's The World
December 06, 2012
Cancer can be triggered by infectious diseases, especially in impoverished parts of the world. Scientists in the US and Africa are working to unravel how viruses and bacteria cause malignancies.
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Conflict & Justice
A gay rights activist from Uganda gets the green light for political asylum
PRI's The World
September 17, 2014
Ugandan gay rights activist John Abdallah Wambere faced death threats after he was outed in his own country. Now the US has granted him political asylum, and he's celebrating — but still dreaming of walking safely with his daughter in the streets of his hometown.
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Health & Medicine
A self-proclaimed 'vaginal ecologist' is determined to halt the transmission of HIV to women
Science Friday
September 03, 2015
Sharon Hillier didn't start out wanting to be the voice of, well, the vagina. But when she discovered just how off-base men who studied women's reproductive issues were, she felt she had to do something.
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Conflict & Justice
The producers of Kony 2012 say they've learned their lesson, but critics aren't so sure
PRI's The World
April 16, 2014
Kony 2012 captured millions of eyeballs and about as much controversy. Two years on, the organization behind the video is still operating and still focused on capturing Joseph Kony — but the group's leaders say they've learned a lot from their experience with their viral video.
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Science, Tech & Environment
How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda
PRI's The World
February 24, 2017
Would you buy wolf-friendly meat? That's one idea Carol Bogezi has to help cattle ranchers in Washington state learn to live with wolves.
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Conflict & Justice
Uganda gay rights activists try again to hold a pride event — again, police intervene
GlobalPost
September 27, 2016
At Uganda's gay pride event on Saturday, held at a private location, police again intervened to shut down the festivities.
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Health & Medicine
Cancer's New Battleground: In Uganda, Jackson Orem fighting to establish cancer care
PRI's The World
December 04, 2012
Cancer's viewed by many as a disease of the developed world. Alternately, it's viewed as too hard or too expensive to prevent or treat. But often, those views simply aren't true. In Uganda, Dr. Jackson Orem, the country's first, and for a time only, cancer doctor is showing the way.
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Science, Tech & Environment
Aquaponic lunch: Pushing super-efficient fish & veggie farming in Uganda
PRI's The World
June 24, 2013
It's an almost climate-proof method of raising fish and vegetables cheaply using very little space, water and chemical inputs. Now one man is determined to make it work in Africa.
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Politics
Uganda's gay community is one step away from a new reality — being illegal
PRI's The World
December 20, 2013
If you're a gay rights activist in Uganda, well, you're now illegal according to an anti-gay bill just passed by the country's parliament. The bill bans any sort of promotion or protection of gay rights. It also calls for life in prison for those convicted of "aggravated homosexuality" which is defined as gay sex with those infected by HIV, minors, and the disabled. But activists aren't throwing in the towel, they're girding for a fight.
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Conflict & Justice
This South Sudanese school trained a medical corps amid civil war. Then the gunmen arrived.
GlobalPost
March 22, 2017
The Kajo Keji Health Training Institute was born out of a dream of improving the health and lives of residents of South Sudan, the world's youngest nation. After gunmen attacked the school last September, it seemed likely to become a casualty of a three-year civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people and sent more than 3 million fleeing from their homes. Now, like hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese, the school is rebuilding across the border in Uganda and waiting for peace to return to South Sudan.