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New Vision (Kampala) - December 21, 2006
Cyprian Musoke, Kampala
"These days, there are many confusing messages. One of them is that if you are circumcised, you are less likely to catch AIDS even if you behave recklessly. Now what sort of message is that?" the President asked.
"Sixty percent less at risk? Then what about the forty percent? If you have got one hundred circumcised people and they live recklessly, and sixty percent don't get AIDS but forty do, what are you looking for?" he mused.
Addressing the international medical students' convention on child health at Makerere University on Wednesday, Museveni said such messages were sending wrong signals to the population, and caused apathy in the fight against HIV/AIDS. He said Uganda's success was because of the clear message that there is no cure at all for AIDS.
"The way we controlled AIDS was because of an unequivocal message that there is a sickness which is not curable, you get it through sex, and when you get it you die. Therefore, avoid all risky sexual behaviours," he said.
The President advised young people to abstain from sex through exercise and sports, until they had found a partner for marriage.
"What sort of sex is that when you are going out with somebody you are not sure of? Oba alina akawuka? Oba talina? (I wonder whether my partner is infected or not?)" he exclaimed amid laughter.
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