What is your comment on the debate or claims from certain quarters that the Uganda Government was shifting the world famous ABC anti-HIV/AIDS strategy in favor of abstinence, or faith against condoms or condoms being promoted against the A & B?
The debate has been going on for a long time. I think it is a healthy debate because we need all possible prevention strategies and Uganda has set the model of finding a lot of ways of preventing the spread of HIV. Certainly ABC, not as A or B or C, but all three of those in different circumstances with different emphasis in different situations has been an effective strategy for Uganda. New prevention focus is necessary now because there are so many discordant couples. We also work on the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission, blood safety and injection safety. So the U.S. is very pleased that we are supporting all of these interventions for the prevention of transmission of HIV. And it is absolutely essential that because there are drugs, people should not relax about good behaviour or become complacent on the threat of the HIV. It is a sexually transmitted disease, it is still deadly and it still has no cure. Q: Then why the controversy? A: I fear that sometimes our position ha
What is your comment on the debate or claims from certain quarters that the Uganda Government was shifting the world famous ABC anti-HIV/AIDS strategy in favor of abstinence, or faith against condoms or condoms being promoted against the A & B?