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New Vision (Kampala) - November 7, 2001
Davis Weddi
"We are better than the national standard and things have greatly improved in the Uganda Police Force," ASP Baziraki said while addressing the first deputy premier and Minister of Internal Affairs, Eriya Kategaya.
Kategaya toured the Kibuli Police Clinic yesterday where he was shown the department responsible for sensitising Police officers on HIV and AIDS.
"The reason for the decline could be that those who had the disease could have died or those who had not contracted it, may have protected themselves against infection," Baziraki, who is responsible for the World Bank-funded Police HIV-AIDS Programme, said.
He said most of the officers who were infected got treatment. He, however, observed that the programme did not have the capacity to provide retroviral drugs for infected officers and members of their families.
The Uganda Police force has adopted a policy of not recruiting people who are infected with HIV/AIDS.
In the recent recruitment of cadets, those who were found to be HIV positive were dismissed.
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