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The non film coated tenofovir+lamivudine is a two drug combination used with a third medicine, typically efavirenz or nivirapine.

“Cease Use of Bitter medicines” – CSOs ask of government

PRESS STATEMENT

People living with HIV Call for Urgent Action by Health Ministry to
Cease Use of “Unusable” Medicine
Risk of Chaos in HIV Treatment Undermines the Right to Health

For Immediate Release: September 2 2014
Contact for more information: Kenneth Mwehonge, HEPS Uganda and
Uganda Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines:: 0701182809
Margaret Happy, International Community of Women Living with HIV East
Africa: 0772695133
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Justice Kabiito breaches new frontier in Human Rights Litigation

Until 16th July 2014, it was unheard of in Uganda’s human rights jurisprudence for a judicial officer in Uganda to visit to location of an alleged human rights violation to contextualize for himself what the circumstances in which the violation is alleged to have occurred. Such was the occasion at Nakaseke District hospital at 10.00am when Hon. Benjamin Kabiito visited the Hospital to ascertain the circumstances under which Nanteza Irene died after failing to access emergency obstetric care she needed to give birth to her baby.

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Magistrates’ Forum on Human Rights in the Criminal Justice System in Uganda – Update

On 8th August 2014, the Center for Health Human Rights and Development hosted judicial officers at Protea Hotel in Kampala to discuss a Human right approach to the criminal justice system in Uganda.

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