Jacquellyn Ssanyu

Research | Pharmacy | Public Health | Health Systems | Women’s Health

[Winnie Byanyima @Winnie_Byanyima]

I am so proud of my partner, @kizzabesigye1.

After months of unlawful detention, he stands in court with dignity, clarity and unwavering principle. He insists on his constitutional right to counsel of his own choosing. He even refuses to burden Ugandan taxpayers with paying for lawyers he does not seek, at a time when so many families are struggling to put food on the table.

This is the courage and integrity I know. This is Kizza Besigye.

Read his statement below.

https://t.co/p2GifXsJGm

[NoLimit @NoLimitGains]

Unpopular opinion: you should aim to retire in your mid 40s to early 50s.

[Michael Katagaya @mkatagaya]

What’s the plan for job creation by the new people in charge? They’re shutting down nonprofit organizations, media houses, stifling capital flow for businesses, making the country too insecure for tourists etc. These sectors employ the bulk of the population.

I am asking to know their plan. I am not even dwelling on the fact that what they are doing undermines the law. It’s obvious even a little child knows.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

[Jacquellyn Ssanyu @JacqueSsanyu]

Very sad!
Learnt of one yesterday: she got a teenage pregnancy and when she went for ANC, she also discovered she had HIV.

We need to do better in our conversations with adolescents about SRHR. Abstinence-only messaging may be comfortable, but it is not effective.

[Godfrey Shadrack Mutunga | MD | MSc @DrMutungaEA]

I have been receiving 18 and 19 year olds who are testing positive for HIV. Their parents being negative. Traditionalists and religious conservatives argue that knowledge on sexual and reproductive health matters is teaching immorality, but I believe the youngsters should know what it takes to keep safe.

[The Lancet @TheLancet]

Can small changes in physical activity make a major difference?

On the cover, a meta-analysis suggests that 5 extra minutes of moderate physical activity a day is associated with a reduction of up to 6% of all deaths in the least active adults.

Read this & more 👉 https://t.co/CjW7g8x8JG

[susa @prinkasusa]

WE DO NOT BEG to sit at tables we were not invited to. WE DO NOT CHASE people who exclude or ignore us. we do NOT seek healing from those who HURT us. we do NOT sell ourselves out to get into someone’s circle. we do NOT set ourselves on fire to keep others warm. we CREATE OUR OWN CIRCLE. we surround ourselves with those who truly LOVE, UNDERSTAND, and RESPECT us

[Whemïmor @hy_wemmy]

Fight for the life you want in 2026. No laziness, no procrastination. Go to war with everything that will stand in your way.

[Jacquellyn Ssanyu @JacqueSsanyu]

Oh dear!

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

Wake up and immediately look at small screen before clocking 8 hours behind medium screen. Take a few breaks to check in on small screen. Go home and spend a few hours staring at big screen to wind down before getting into bed and looking at small screen.

Living the dream.

[Winnie Kiiza @WinnieKiiza]

Be unapologetically feminist and powerfully consistent in championing the rights and dignity of women everywhere.

[Buregyeya Apollo, PhD @ApolloBuregyeya]

Africa’s Worst Raw Export isn’t Iron Ore. It’s Her Daughters.
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In just 9 hours, I flew from Entebbe to Addis Ababa to Ouagadougou. No London layover. No Paris visa hustle. No colonial checkpoint to move between two African countries. That’s progress. President @KagutaMuseveni and his fellow African leaders deserve their flowers for decolonising the air routes of Africa. It’s only 2% of the work, but at least now we can visit our neighbours without first consulting the Queen’s grandchildren.

But while the runways are now African, the cargo remains a heartbreak.

At every airport — Entebbe, Bole, Ouagadougou — the same sad procession. Lines of young African girls, veiled, timid, blank-faced. Not tourists. Not scholars. Not diplomats. Just unprocessed human cargo. Housemaids in transit. Exported like raw coffee. Like we’re still shipping bananas with the peel, while the world sells banana-flavoured ice cream.

We banned raw copper and unrefined timber but forgot to protect the most valuable raw material: our daughters.

On my flight to West Africa, the plane was packed with Chinese engineers, technicians, and chemists. Meanwhile, we, the proud cradle of humanity, are exporting broken dreams and helplessness. Our exports wear hijabs, not headsets. Their luggage carries pain, not patents. And their hearts carry fear, not freedom.

When we export maids, we get back survivors - brave, but often broken. They return with skills that no critical local industry needs. But when we export trained industrial workers, engineers, technicians, nurses, we get back multipliers. Healthy citizens sufficient in skills, ready to plug into our broken systems.

Skilled workers abroad will not just be earning, they’ll be learning. They’ll come back with sharper tools, exposure to new technologies, better work ethics, and cleaner code. They’ll have tested machines, installed systems, managed workflows, and serviced systems that are our future. You plug them into your local industry and — voilà! — instant upgrade.

But what does a maid come back with? Trauma. Culture shock. And sometimes, a suitcase full of regrets.

So while we clap for ourselves for banning raw mineral exports, we must ask: what about our most strategic commodity, our people?

If we’re serious about sovereignty, let’s start with schools. Let’s industrialise our education systems. Export carpenters, masons, coders, and clinicians, not broken dreams wrapped in hijabs.

Because a nation that ships off its women as maids and begs for expat consultants to build its infrastructure isn’t poor, it’s just confused.

Africa isn’t poor. She’s just exporting the wrong people. Let’s process our people first and export smarter.

[Jacquellyn Ssanyu @JacqueSsanyu]

No! This is not it.

[DR MORGANS @DrMorgans01]

Bullets and teargas in Kawempe now.

#KawempeNorthByElection

[Lulama💜 @Miss_Lulama]

Always remember:

[Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá @seyeabimbola]

The lazy language of "lifestyle" strikes again.

Look closely. You'll see that rather than "lifestyle", it's the social circumstances (created, perpetuated, worsened by social policy) that actually kill & make people sick.

This is one of many ways epistemic injustice manifests.

[Sabrina Kitaka @SabrinaKitaka]

Take note

[Jacquellyn Ssanyu @JacqueSsanyu]

Reason #78901 why I don’t participate in organised religion anymore.

We have young men and women held in prison for months without trial and this is what is urgent.

We literally don’t know how our people living with HIV will survive next year and this is what we’re discussing?

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

Church leaders call for law to criminalise cohabitation #MonitorUpdates
https://t.co/PJsh8FANik

[Claire Amanya Rukundo - Kakeeto @UgLadyLawyer]

First they fetched Dr. @kizzabesigye1 , and i thought to myself, “nze I am a coward, I don’t do politics, let me keep quiet 🤐.”

Then they incarcerated Counsel @kiizaeron, and I thought to myself, “yarabi yarabi, but also him, why did he shout at the army man? But anyway, he will be out soon. Surely they can’t keep him in for the whole 8 months?🙆🏻‍♀️ Let me just keep quiet”.

Now the “whole” @ug_lawsociety President, Senior Counsel @IsaacSsemakadde is “eating from the bush”, he is a wanted man 🙆🏻‍♀️. Two years at that 😭! At first I thought to myself, “he had it coming, his big mouth has brought him problems. But let me just keep quiet, his beloved foot soldiers have gat this, they will appeal.”

Oh but now that I think about it, if I continue keeping quiet and I just keep praying for them, when they come for me, for whatever reason they will use to come for me, who will be left to speak up for me? 😰

Speak up against injustice. Send the flyer to 5 people including all the politicians you know, even an ex of P1 or your neighbourhood group. #Baswaleko. #FfenaTuswaleko.
Let us burn in shame and speak up.
For God and My Country 🇺🇬.
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
#FreeKiizaBesigye
#SaveKizzaBesigye

[uYintongaYosimelela @Qwabekazi]

I cannot stress enough how important it is to do silly, frivolous things that serve no other purpose than making you happy.

[Pamela @pamdebams]

Absolutely Mr. Arinatiwe! What you are suggesting presents a rich opportunity for philosophical research that could unveil numerous intricacies at the intersection of politics and gender studies. Such a study could perhaps unravel a critical examination of how women's identities are shaped by political power dynamics and societal expectations. Am inclined to supervise a PhD student to study this topic, so I/we can better understand the transient nature of political favor and the complexities of women's roles in governance 🤔😊. Arguably, such an investigation would not only contribute to academic discourse but also foster deeper insights into the ongoing challenges with women’s leadership… and transformations within gender and politics, making it a worthy and necessary area of study. Let me do some deeper thinking! 🤔 😊👍👌🙏!