Uganda, Sept. 30 -- In the last fortnight, I received complaints relating to the use of photographs and a headline in the Daily Monitor.

First, it was the Ministry of Health that protested the publication of photos, names, parents, villages, etc of persons suspected to (or died) of Ebola in Mubende District (see Daily Monitor, September 21). Many of them were children.

The ministry argued that publishing full details of the victims was causing stigma to the affected families and undermining their efforts to trace contacts as many hide to avoid being stigmatised.

Second was a lady doctor (name withheld) who protested the publication of a graphic of a used women's sanitary pad to illustrate a question-and-answer health column in which a ...