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New Vision (Kampala) - September 29, 2003
John Eremu
The association coordinator, Alice Sena Lamptey, said contrary to the belief that the HIV/AIDS infection rate was lower among the educated, research indicated that it was on the rise. The epidemic claims up to two students or staff a week in some institutions she declined to reveal.
"We have received 67 proposals on HIV/AIDS from various institutions of higher education and in all cases the prevalence rate seems to be higher than the national average," Sena said Wednesday in Accra.
This was at the conference on improving higher education in Africa.
With support from the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Sena said they have managed to fund six of the proposals and have developed an HIV/AIDS toolkit for the 172 member universities including Makerere.
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