300 children test HIV-positive in Gulu

Sep 26, 2005

Three hundred children out of the 700 who were recently tested for HIV/AIDS in Gulu were found positive, the medical officer at Gulu regional referral hospital, Dr. Geoffery Openy-thoo, has said.

By Odwong W’Ayo

Three hundred children out of the 700 who were recently tested for HIV/AIDS in Gulu were found positive, the medical officer at Gulu regional referral hospital, Dr. Geoffery Openy-thoo, has said.

Openythoo said this on Saturday at a workshop organised by Health Alert Uganda, an NGO operating in Gulu district.

He said only 70 of the affected children were on ARV treatment
He said some who have responded well to treatment have started attending school and he advised the school authorities not to subject these children to hard work.

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