Uganda: Kalangala Given Motorcycles to Fight HIV
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New Vision (Kampala)
3 September 2008
Posted to the web 4 September 2008
Rehema Aanyu
Kampala
KALANGALA local district government on Saturday got 12 Yamaha motorcycles worth sh35m to conduct door-to-door HIV counselling and voluntary testing.
The move was aimed at curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS in the fishing communities around Lake Victoria. The district health officer, Hillary Bitakalamire, said: "Our work of sensitising communities about HIV/ AIDS has always been limited by the lack of transportation to the various fishing communities in Kalangala and the neighbouring villages. And as a result, a number of people have contracted HIV because of ignorance."
According to statistics, 30% of the district's population is HIV-positive.
Bitakalamire said under the district project dubbed Home Based HIV Voluntary counselling and Testing, teams of specialists would also provide antiretroviral treatment to people living with the disease.
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The motorcycles were a grant from the centre for disease control and prevention and the department of health and human services based in the United States of America.
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