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UGANDA: President urges strengthened AIDS efforts
23 March 2005 (PlusNews ), Although Uganda has featured as a model in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, President Yoweri Museveni says there is need for a concerted effort to combat the disease, a local newspaper, New Vision, reported.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38360

UGANDA: India's AIDS drug law fuels demonstrations
22 March 2005 (PlusNews ), HIV-positive Ugandans at the weekend joined global demonstrations against India's proposed legislation to halt its production of cheap anti-AIDS drugs.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38352

UGANDA: NGO assists children affected by AIDS and war
18 March 2005 (PlusNews ), The prevalence of HIV/AIDS and malaria, as well as high levels of unemployment in the war-affected areas of northern Uganda, were impacting on children, according to the international NGO, Save The Children.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38340

UGANDA: AIDS treatment could fuel pandemic - authorities
15 March 2005 (PlusNews ), Ugandan health officials are concerned that increased access to anti-AIDS drugs is encouraging risky sexual behaviour among HIV-positive people.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38322

UGANDA: UN highlights children's poor access to AIDS drugs
8 March 2005 (PlusNews ), The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern over the low availability of anti-AIDS treatments for children in Uganda.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38299

UGANDA: Lack of free condoms could fuel HIV - official
2 March 2005 (PlusNews ), An acute shortage of free condoms at landing sites for fishermen in Uganda's Kalangala district on Lake Victoria could escalate the prevalence of HIV/AIDS, a senior government official has warned.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38276

UGANDA: Condoms outshine abstinence in AIDS battle - researchers
24 February 2005 (PlusNews ), A lengthy study on HIV/AIDS prevention in Uganda suggests that the country's much-lauded success in tackling the pandemic has little to do with abstinence.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38250

UGANDA: Treatment guide for HIV-positive people launched
18 February 2005 (PlusNews ), Uganda this week launched an HIV/AIDS treatment handbook for the benefit of all HIV-positive people in the Great Lakes region.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38224

UGANDA: Free AIDS drugs for HIV-positive children
16 February 2005 (PlusNews ), HIV-positive children in Uganda's Kasese district will start receiving free antiretroviral therapy at Kagando Hospital on Friday.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38215

UGANDA: Poverty affecting ART use among mothers
10 February 2005 (PlusNews ), Poverty is preventing many Ugandan mothers from using drugs that prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and this has put more children at risk, health researchers said.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38189

UGANDA: Free medical care for HIV-positive children
7 February 2005 (PlusNews ), Healthcare professionals from the United States are voluntarily treating the dental problems of HIV-positive children in Uganda.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38175

UGANDA: Majority of companies lack AIDS policies
2 February 2005 (PlusNews ), Although Uganda has been hailed as a torch bearer in the fight against HIV/AIDS, most businesses still lack relevant policies.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38158

UGANDA: AIDS drug demand outnumbers resources
25 January 2005 (PlusNews ), Uganda has expressed concern over the rising demand for anti-AIDS drugs, which is outstripping available resources.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38130

UGANDA: Public transport to be used to combat HIV/AIDS
20 January 2005 (PlusNews ), Uganda’s public transport system is set to become the latest vehicle to promote behaviour change in the country’s continued fight against HIV/AIDS, according to the ministry of health.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38116

UGANDA: Transport system to drive AIDS message home
19 January 2005 (PlusNews ), Uganda's AIDS Control Programme (UACP) has announced plans to use public transport systems to distribute condoms and HIV/AIDS awareness messages.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38113

UGANDA: Mayor's AIDS plans to benefit disabled
10 January 2005 (PlusNews ), The city council of Uganda's capital, Kampala, is to collaborate with various organisations in an effort to prevent the spread of HIV among disabled persons.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38076

UGANDA: PLWAs at the centre of AIDS response
16 December 2004 (PlusNews ), Lydia Mungherere speaks with passion about the need for antiretrovirals (ARVs), not only because she is a doctor - the first in Uganda to disclose being HIV positive - but also because she would be dead today if it weren't for the drugs.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38023

UGANDA: New import measures lead to condom shortage
15 December 2004 (PlusNews ), New measures aimed at preventing the dumping of low quality condoms in Uganda have resulted in shortages across the country, a senior health ministry official told PlusNews on Tuesday.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38009

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