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New Vision (Kampala) - November 5, 2002
Geresom Musamali
Dr Elizabeth Madraa, the programme co-ordinator for Sexually Transmitted Diseases and the AIDS Control Programme in the Ministry of Health, said some surviving parents of such children have had no courage or skill to reveal their status, leaving the children in the dark.
She said there was an urgent need to address the sero status of these adolescents lest they caused a fresh round of the epidemic.
Madraa was speaking at a dialogue on the support for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS at Hotel Africana, Kampala.
The dialogue was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development.
"Most of those children have never openly been told about their HIV status and now time is running out," Madraa said.
She said fluconizal or diflucan, a drug that treats opportunistic infections in HIV/AIDS patients, was available and free throughout the country.
She said all clinics handling ordinary HIV/AIDS patients should work out a mechanism for preparing the youth psychologically and, where necessary, telling them their sero status and its implications.
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