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New Vision (Kampala) - September 13, 2007
Cornes Lubangakene
The councillor for Pece division, Charles Okwakalwak, sounded the warning during a one-day workshop on HIV/AIDS at the workplace. The workshop, which took place at Gulu Sunset Hotel, was organised by the Alliance of Mayors Initiative for Community Action on AIDS.
Okwakalwak said although it was the council's obligation to meet such burial expenses, it would better to save the money for more developmental projects.
He said HIV/AIDS had adversely affected the economy, with large sums of money going into paying gratuity of civil and public servants who die of AIDS.
Okwakalwak said whereas the national HIV prevalence is still at 6.4%, in Gulu district has a higher prevalence of 11.1%.
He said the situation was alarming and appealed to the people to live responsibly.
"When we talk of behavioural change, we need to sensitise everybody who is sexually active - school children, the youth as well as the boda-boda cyclists," he said.
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