By; Gideon Peter Ssebulime

16th October 2019

Government is renewing the campaign against HIV/AIDS like it in the 1990s which had helped the country to reduce its prevalence levels below 6%.

Over the last three decades, Uganda has battled the Aids pandemic with great success reducing HIV prevalence from a national average of 18% in the 1990s to 6% by 2016, however a recent review indicated that the burden is still huge with 1000 people getting newly infected with HIV and 500 people dying of AIDS related illness every week.

This has been revealed by the minister for presidency Esther Mbayo during the launch of “End Aids 2030 Uganda campaign, at Uganda media centre as part of presidential fast track initiatives launched in 2017, which aims at ending HIV/AIDS by 2030 in Uganda.

Dr. David Bagambe from Uganda Aids commission said, they are carrying out trials HIV/AIDS of vaccines until the right one is got.

Meanwhile Dr. Karusa Kiragu UNAIDS country director appealed the general public not to be distracted from their urgency because AIDS is not over and acceleration of prevention must be done, and to make it possible for people to become virally suppressed.


Thursday 17th October 2019 01:30:07 AM