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Fighting AIDS in Uganda Your article on Uganda's use of condoms in the past to fight aids [Sept. 26] noted the controversy over whether the Ugandan government is now promoting a "message of abstinence based on religious dogma" in response to U.S. pressure. From 1992 to 2002, Uganda had remarkable success in reducing its hiv rate because of a number of factors, including strong national political leadership, comprehensive prevention strategies and promotion of condom use and safe sex. The abstinence-only approach appeared only after the U.S. started exporting that ideology after 2001. U.S. funding for hiv prevention...
...Ugandans learned their ABCs before other Africans. That's ABC as in Abstinence, Being faithful and using a Condom. The east African nation was at the center of the aids pandemic when it began in the 1980s - and was the first African country to fight the disease seriously. The ABC approach has helped cut the hiv rate in adults from more than 15% in 1990 to just under 7% today. Has the Ugandan government now forgotten its alphabet? A group of Ugandan and Western organizations and a senior U.N. aids expert claim that Uganda has over the last year allowed...
...cars and buses carrying nearly 300 Americans, Europeans and Asians who were evacuated from Uganda last week following the coup on July 27 that ousted President Apollo Milton Obote. In contrast to the friendly welcome, the travelers gave chilling eyewitness accounts of the confusion and fear that shook the Ugandan capital of Kampala after the coup. Bands of drunken soldiers armed with Soviet-made Kalashnikov rifles, sometimes replaced by gangs of thugs brandishing long knives, roamed through the city, looting stores, stealing cars and harassing Ugandans and foreigners alike...
...leaders of the Democratic Party, who formed the main political opposition to Obote's Uganda People's Congress, refused to attend Muwanga's installation last week. A senior minister in neighboring Kenya reflected the view of many of Obote's opponents, when he said, "The Ugandan government has gone out of one door and come back into the room through another door, minus only Milton Obote...
...coup. The general's greatest challenge will be to win the backing of the National Resistance Army, a guerrilla group led by former Defense Minister Yoweri Musevni, which was at the forefront of the struggle against Obote. "Forming a military government without Musevni means it cannot last," says a Ugandan political analyst. The rebels demand a greater say in the formation of the new government and strongly object to Muwanga's appointment. Western diplomats say that armed N.R.A. troops may already have begun to move into the capital. Said the Ugandan analyst: "Things are very unstable, very unpredictable." --By Janice...