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New Vision (Kampala) - December 11, 2001
Anne Mugisa
Bitangaro was opening a regional conference at the Grand Imperial Hotel on HIV/AIDS for the countries in the east, central, Southern and the Horn of Africa. He said AIDS is impacting on the economies of the African countries where most of the global cases are.
Bitangaro said women lack control over their sexual lives and are less likely to influence safer sex practices and also have less safe sex options.
He blamed many of the infections on the continued civil strife and armed conflict in some parts of the country which put women and girls at the mercy of rapists, defilers and forced marriages.
Bitangaro also lashed at some cultural practices like polygamy, early marriages, female circumcision, widow inheritance and wife sharing which he said expose women to the AIDS epidemic.
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