Uganda May Be Losing the Battle Against AIDS
By The ArchivesUganda 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…