Ms hillary clinton‚ the us secretary of state‚ on Friday expressed worry about soaring hiv infections in uganda – a global poster child for success in containing the virus – and urged immediate government action to reverse the trend.
“i am here because I am worried‚” she said in a nightfall address to a group of men and women‚ part of 300‚ 000 ugandans on anti-retroviral treatment‚ whose responses oscillated between cheers and lamentation. “in recent years secretary clinton said‚ “the focus on (hiv) prevention has faded and new infections are on the rise again.”
President museveni’s openness about the scourge coupled with government’s adoption of abstinence‚ being faithful and condom use (abc) strategy to fight hiv/aids helped lower infection rates from more than 20 per cent to about 5.6 per cent.
As a reward‚ washington through the president’s emergency plan for aids relief (pepfar) initiative – started by ex-president george bush in 2004’– pumped millions of dollars and experts flew in from across the world to learn and duplicate the miracles of uganda’s abc model.

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