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Insight into overconsumption of sugar among children, its negative effects on their health

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on people and communities all over the world, including Uganda.

While the humanitarian community in other parts of the world might have…

I have previously written about our experience and lessons learnt on…

The Ministry of Health is the probably the biggest beneficiary of this study

I want to say that as ACORD Uganda, it was a pleasure for us to be part of this study because it was reviving the ‘R’ in our ACORD name.

What is in our children’s food environment? What are food environments? According to the Food Environment Health (FEH) experts, food environments are defined as “the collective physical, economic, policy and socio-cultural surroundings, opportunities and conditions that influence people’s food and beverage choices and nutritional status” (Swinburn et al., 2013). In our study context, we are

Food Choices Ever heard about the phrase” You are what you eat?”I mean, if it doesn’t taste good then we won’t eat it. Even when it seems like the easiest decision to make, it is not about what we actually eat but more of what our bodies become as we eat. I believe that as

Dealing with Children in the face of COVID A Parent’s Perspective. One afternoon I got a circular and call from the Headteacher of my children’s school, telling me that the children will have to stay home following an announcement – by the President, Minister of Health and Minister of Education- to send the children back

COVID-19: How I experienced it. I wake up one day to a video of a colleague next to whom I had sat in a meeting battling with breathing and on oxygen at one of the regional COVID treatment centres. On seeing this video, I go into panic mode – so scared about what was happening