World renowned American pop singer Whitney Houston was one of the greatest musicians of all time. With an angelic voice and undoubted beauty, she was admired by many. Juliana Kanyomozi a Ugandan female musician admits to have been influenced by Houston's vocal power.

Houston's musical legacy is most remembered with hits like I Will Always Love You, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, and I look to You.

Back in September 2010, when US President Barack Hussein Obama was speaking to young African leaders in Washington DC about the rising problem of HIV/Aids in Africa, its likely that he had Uganda at the back of his mind even though he didn't explicitly mention the country.

A pioneering international collaboration forged by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center based in Seattle, USA, together with the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala, Uganda, this week broke ground for the construction of a state-of-the-art cancer training and outpatient treatment facility in Kampala.

The building will be the first comprehensive cancer center jointly constructed by a U.S. and African cancer institution.

Civil society activists have petitioned parliamentarians to reject certain clauses in the amended HIV bill claiming that they are an abuse of people's human rights.
Among the many amendments the petitioners want removed is one that seeks to introduce a death sentence for Aids sufferers who intentionally infect other people with the disease.

The bill also requires that all people to go for HIV tests and makes it mandatory for medical personnel to disclose the sero status of their patients without the latter's consent.
This is contained in a petition to parliament where the activists ask the legislators to drop the said amendments in the proposed bill arguing that failure to do so will frighten away the people from freely going for HIV/Aids tests with the likely result that they would willingly or unwillingly continue to pass on the disease to others.