Uganda

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What Street Food Vendors in Uganda Need to Succeed

Street vendors in Kampala, Uganda, would benefit from infrastructure development, food safety standards, rules of hygiene, and greater focus on healthy products. The city's growing population also would benefit from increased access to nutritious and affordable foods.

Michele Abbott, Deborah A. Cohen

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A New Ugandan Cuisine: Showcasing Superfood Qualities of Millet and Sorghum

The results of a series of cooking contests in Uganda to promote the use of drought-tolerant, nutritious traditional grains—millet and sorghum—signal that a new food trend may be on the horizon.

Michele Abbott, Deborah A. Cohen

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Lessons from Northern Uganda: Post-Conflict Integration of 'Children Born of War'

Children conceived as a result of sexual violence during armed conflict face socioeconomic marginalization, family rejection, stigmatization, and violence. Grass-roots women's organizations in northern Uganda are helping to integrate these children in post-conflict societies.

Mahlet Atakilt Woldetsadik

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Improving HIV and Mental Health Care in Uganda

A small team of RAND researchers has spent years working with local clinics in Uganda to help people not just survive HIV, but learn to live with it, and even thrive.

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After Decades of Conflict, Learning to Reap the Benefits of Taxes in Northern Uganda

A women's community organization is trying to get Ugandans to pay taxes while teaching them how to get the local government to spend tax money on improving public services. The post-conflict regions of northern Uganda need more health care, legal services, psychological support, and counseling.

Mahlet Atakilt Woldetsadik