Uganda May Be Losing the Battle Against AIDS

Uganda May Be Losing the Battle Against AIDS
At reception centres across northern Uganda, returning abductees are given the option of voluntary HIV counselling and testing and are informed about HIV before being reintegrated into the community, photo courtesy of the Uganda Education Project
Uganda May Be Losing the Battle Against AIDS
At reception centres across northern Uganda, returning abductees are given the option of voluntary HIV counselling and testing and are informed about HIV before being reintegrated into the community, photo courtesy of the Uganda Education Project

Uganda May Be Losing the Battle Against AIDS

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The number of people infected by AIDS is growing by a million each year. But the funding available to treat AIDS isn’t growing at all.

For a country like Uganda, which depends on money from the U.S. and other donor nations to battle its AIDS epidemic, the dearth of outside funding is a deadly problem that means less money for anti-retroviral drugs and prevention programs.

Some experts believe that Uganda may be the first example of many countries that will lose the war on AIDS.

Kisuule Magala is a Ugandan journalist based in Chicago. He’s Editor of CrestedJournal.com and joins Jerome to talk about the AIDS crisis and other news in Uganda…