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New Vision (Kampala) - November 1, 2006
The attendants in 80 bars and 50 guest houses are to be trained in sensitising their customers on condom use and HIV/AIDS prevention.
The Organisation for Good Life of the Marginalised (OGLM), a local NGO, is to carry out the training in conjunction with the Population Service International (PSI) Uganda.
OGLM director Christopher Kalema said HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted illnesses prevention and awareness programmes were not effectively carried out in bars, hotels and lodges.
Kalema was officiating at the closure of a three-day seminar for peer mobilisers from Jinja district, held at the organisation's head office at YMCA Annex Jinja on Sunday.
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