Uganda offers hope in Africa's AIDS battle
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Uganda offers hope in Africa's AIDS battle
Abstract
PIP: UNAIDS, the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS, estimates that 14 million people were living with HIV infection or AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 1996, 63% of the world's total HIV-infected population. More than 18% of adults in Botswana and 17% in Zambia and Zimbabwe are infected, and the prevalence of HIV infection is growing in South Africa and Zaire. However, while HIV continues to spread at alarming rates in many countries, the rate of infection has dropped over the past few years from 30% to 15% of the population in some of Uganda's urban areas. This apparent drop in the rate of infection is the result of a public health policy of openness about the problem and the need to take preventive measures. However, with 1.5 million of the 20 million population infected with HIV, more than 50% of the health facilities taken up by AIDS patients, and more than 1 million orphans, the HIV/AIDS epidemic will be a major problem in Uganda for quite some time.
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