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uganda has no homosexuals
March
10, 2002: In Uganda Aids is not caused by homosexual, president
Museveni said, because there are none...
After accepting an award for his
government's successful campaign against AIDS, Uganda's
president declared on Sun, 10 Mar. 2002 that his country
has no homosexuals, one of the groups most threatened by
the global epidemic, Associated Press reported.
The
comment by President Yoweri Museveni follows a report by
a human rights group that accused Uganda and other countries
of trotting and mistreating their homosexual population.
Museveni
has led an aggressive AIDS prevention campaign since 1986
that has been credited with slashing the infection rate
among adults in the Africa nation from 28 percent too less
than 10 percent.
He accepted
an award for his efforts from the Commonwealth, the association
of Britain and its former colonies, at a meeting of the
group in Column, Australia. Afterward, he listed the way
that the AIDS Virus spread in Uganda.
"First,
it goes through unprotected sex. We don't have homosexuals
in Uganda so this is mainly heterosexual transmission,"
he said.
Human
rights watchdog Amnesty International said in a report last
June that it had documented cases of homosexuals being torture
in Uganda.
The report compiled alleged cases of tortured mistreating
in 30 countries including Uganda, Pakistan, Argentina, Russia
and the United States.
Museveni
said Sunday that the AIDS virus also spread through "careless
blood transfusion" and through tribal custom such as
circumcision in which the same knife is used for multiple
people.
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