AIDS and abstinence: Uganda a role model

IF the Government is really serious about reducing the loss of life caused by the AIDS epidemic, then they could do worse than to look to Uganda, a country that has surpassed all expectations in its AIDS programme.

Uganda has actually decreased its rate of AIDS by as much as 75% in some demographics, an unprecedented success in the struggle to combat AIDS in Africa.

This was achieved with the help of government-sponsored information campaigns that discouraged promiscuity and sexual ‘grazing’ and encouraged faithfulness to one spouse in marriage.