«Why It's Dangerous Being Born In Uganda»

The article titled "Why it's dangerous being born in Uganda” is an investigation on how thousands of Ugandan babies are being infected with the deadly HIV/AIDS virus by their mothers before and after delivery, with nothing much being done by health workers to stop it. The investigative story revealed that about 84,500 of the 1.3 million pregnant mothers that visit antenatal clinics in Uganda every year and accept to test for HIV, turn out to be positive.
In all, the article condemns such massive Mother to child HIV infections and argues that such practices intended to protect the mothers' privacy should be seen as criminal and a violation of the babies' fundamental human right to good health.

Robert Mugagga is a Uganda freelance journalist attached to The Weekly Observer newspaper. He has 13 years of journalism experience. He joined Uganda's leading independent daily, Daily Monitor straight from journalism school in 1994, rising through the ranks from a junior to a senior reporter. He has attended several journalism conferences and training courses abroad like "Writing International news" at Reuters Foundation in London in 2001.