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New Vision (Kampala) - December 5, 2006
Ali Mambule
This was at the celebrations to mark the World AIDS Day at Kyondo Primary School in Dwaniro sub-county.
She urged residents to test for HIV.
"It is disappointing to learn that men do not want to go for voluntary testing to establish their HIV/AIDS status," she said.
Mutagamba expressed dismay that some people judge the HIV statuses of others by the way they look.
The LC5 chairman, Vincent Semakula, expressed discontent over the way defilers are treated in courts, saying Muwanga, who defiled a three-year-old baby, deserved to be hanged.
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