Fight AIDS â€" Kisamba
Dec 01, 2002
Dr. Kisamba Mugerwa, the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, has issued a directive to all agricultural-related projects in the country to take into account HIV/AIDS in their programmes.
By Abubaker Mukose in Jinja
Dr. Kisamba Mugerwa, the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, has issued a directive to all agricultural-related projects in the country to take into account HIV/AIDS in their programmes.
Kisamba was on Thursday closing an international workshop on agriculture and HIV/AIDS at Sunset Hotel in Jinja.
He said there was an urgent need to develop basic criteria for vetting projects in the agricultural sector so that they were not only for modernising agriculture but also sensitising communities about HIV/AIDS.
“The Government came with the Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture (PMA) as a strategy for fighting poverty.
“However, HIV/AIDS is adversely affecting the labour force, especially among the rural communities, yet these are the main investors in agriculture,†Kisamba told participants from Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Europe and the USA.
He said more sensitisation was needed to stop the HIV/AIDS spread and mitigate its impact on the sector.
He said 80% of Uganda’s population lived in rural areas and about 90% of those depended on agriculture.
Dr. Kisamba Mugerwa, the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, has issued a directive to all agricultural-related projects in the country to take into account HIV/AIDS in their programmes.
Kisamba was on Thursday closing an international workshop on agriculture and HIV/AIDS at Sunset Hotel in Jinja.
He said there was an urgent need to develop basic criteria for vetting projects in the agricultural sector so that they were not only for modernising agriculture but also sensitising communities about HIV/AIDS.
“The Government came with the Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture (PMA) as a strategy for fighting poverty.
“However, HIV/AIDS is adversely affecting the labour force, especially among the rural communities, yet these are the main investors in agriculture,†Kisamba told participants from Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Europe and the USA.
He said more sensitisation was needed to stop the HIV/AIDS spread and mitigate its impact on the sector.
He said 80% of Uganda’s population lived in rural areas and about 90% of those depended on agriculture.