Saturday, July 21, 2012

AIDS rise in Uganda shows need for more resources

In this Thursday, July 12, 2012 photo, Dr. Geoffrey Kagoro, left, attends to patients at The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) in the Kampala, Uganda. Thousands become infected with HIV each year in Uganda, keeping pressure on the government and its foreign benefactors to sustain AIDS relief. Officially, the infection rate is going up mainly because more Ugandans are having multiple sex partners. But critics of Uganda's AIDS control policy say the country's past success in reducing the infection rate had been undermined later by a shift in attention from prevention to treatment. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)Once every month, John Robert Engole checks into a clinic on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital to collect his medication before quickly returning to the village in northern Uganda where he is a teacher.


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