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IDPs Ask for Condoms

New Vision (Kampala) - October 22, 2003


MEN in the internally displaced people's camps in Soroti have asked for free condoms, Julius Okwi reports.

In a survey carried out by The New Vision in the camps in Arapai and Tubur sub-counties, the youth and unmarried men preferred protected sex.

They said it was hard to abstain from sex, though AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases are rampant.

They appealed to the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation to respond to their need.


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