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Uganda: Young People Still Vulnerable to HIV/AIDS
Dec 12, 2006
by Edgar R. BatteDaniel Sabiiti
The Minister for the Presidency made a call for the need of a breakthrough in adolescent sexual behaviour. "As policy makers and key stakeholders, we should be guided by this wealth of information in our day to day fight against the pandemic," Dr. Beatrice Wabudeya said.
This was during the launch of a report on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Uganda at Grand Imperial, recently. Wabudeya said that young people aged 10-24 years comprise 33 percent of the total population but nearly 50 precent of the country's HIV/Aids cases.
"Young women are particularly vulnerable; they are four times as likely to be infected as their male counterparts because over half of Ugandan women marry while still in their teens. Yet they get married to older men who may have had many sexual partners before. Some of these men may have acquired HIV or other Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) that they may transmit to their young wife," the minister's speech read.
Copyright 2006 The Monitor
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contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 12 December 2006
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