Browsing by Author "Lubega, Henry"

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    Experience of a surrogate mother.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-11-15) Lubega, Henry
    Lying on a hospital bed in a recovery room is 29-year-old Mariam Nabatanzi (not real names). On one hand is a catheter with a tube showing she had been receiving blood. A mother of two, this is Nabatanzi's third time in a labour ward. But this time it was different.
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    From normal birth to IVF and surrogate to make a family.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-11-15) Lubega, Henry
    More than 30 years after the birth of their first child, Florence Nakintu and her husband relentlessly searched for more was blessed with fraternal twins after numerous hospital visits. There was a lot of family pressure on her husband to find another woman but he stood by her,
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    How assisted reproduction works.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-11-14) Lubega, Henry
    Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) is taking root in Uganda needs to revise its taxation on the provision of this service. ART was first reported in 1978 in the United Kingdom when the first In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) baby was born.
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    How cotton helped jump-start Uganda’s economy
    (Sunday Monitor, 2017-07-23) Lubega, Henry
    Uganda's economy has gone through a transition; from a commodity to cash economy. Thanks to colonialism. Soon after establishing authority over Baganda, and later Uganda, the new administrators needed revenue to run the country.
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    How Indians rose to control Uganda’s cotton trade
    (Sunday Monitor, 2017-07-30) Lubega, Henry
    In December 1909, an Indian called L.R. Ramsingh applied for permission to introduce improved hand-gins in Mubende. Masaka and Masindi. What the colonial government had banned.
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    'I was told not to wear underwear to bear children'
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-11-14) Lubega, Henry
    Hamza Kafeero and Sharifah Nampijja (not real names) endured a difficult three years of ridicule simply because they had not had children three years into their marriage. Thirty two-year-old Kafeero and his wife sought help from a number of hospitals and clinics and Nampijja even resorted to herbalists.
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    Mulungu beach:
    (Sunday Monitor, 2017-10-08) Lubega, Henry
    On particular days, for a couple of hours, it is a church. On other days, its verandah is dotter with stalls of Khat traders and their clients, and it provides shelter to those who are high and need a break. The compound is a part of the beach where the use of drugs, chewing Khat and smoking,
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    Perils of child bearing:
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-11-13) Lubega, Henry
    I first met my husband in 1988 and in 1997 we officially became husband and wife at the church of Uganda in Nakulabye, a city suburb. Four years into our marriage with no child, he put me under pressure; he wanted (a child) though he already had children from other women.