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Culture bars AIDS fight

New Vision - December 20, 2004
Moses Nampala


Culture is the main challenge in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Mayuge district.

The district chairperson of people living with HIV/AIDS, William Atubo, said the communities were ignorant about the scourge, adding that people always suspect that the victim is bewitched.

He said this recently while commissioning over 70 HIV/AIDS health educators in Imanyiro sub-county. He also decried wife inheritance.


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