Uganda is often held up as a model for other nations in the fight against HIV. In the 1980s, it was estimated that HIV infected 15 per cent of adults, and up to 30 per cent of pregnant women in some places, but the government responded with 'zero-grazing' campaigns and the ABC approach (Abstinence, Be Faithful, Use Condoms).
However today, 'some experts fear a new and more complacent generation is picking up the same dangerous sexual behaviour of multiple partners that fanned the spread of the disease like wildfire during the early to mid-1980s'.
Read: Battling old behaviour: The new front in AIDS fight.
To my utter amazement, The Guardian has an article arguing that we need to take religion seriously if we are serious about understanding social, economic and political change in Uganda.
Read: Can religion be a force for good in Africa?
However today, 'some experts fear a new and more complacent generation is picking up the same dangerous sexual behaviour of multiple partners that fanned the spread of the disease like wildfire during the early to mid-1980s'.
Read: Battling old behaviour: The new front in AIDS fight.
To my utter amazement, The Guardian has an article arguing that we need to take religion seriously if we are serious about understanding social, economic and political change in Uganda.
Read: Can religion be a force for good in Africa?
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