Gov’t urged to re-focus HIV campaign in fishing - TopicsExpress



          

Gov’t urged to re-focus HIV campaign in fishing communities CAN Uganda really hope to achieve millennium development goal 6 on combating HIV/Aids, Malaria and other diseases by 2015? This was the question put forward by KMCC, a local NGO spearheading knowledge sharing in the fight against HIV, tasking government to draw an AIDS intervention program specifically targeting fisher folks, whose prevalence remain a cast high — 3 to 4 times higher than the national prevalence. According to reports from both the Uganda AIDS Commission and the health ministry, HIV prevalence in fishing communities ranges from 25% to 50%. It is higher among women compared to the men. Read on.. newvision.co.ug/news/659993-gov-t-urged-to-re-focus-hiv-campaign-in-fishing-communities.html
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 05:20:00 +0000

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