Educate Us About Condoms â€" NUDIPU
Nov 25, 2002
LACK of brailed messages on condom use is denying the blind vital information to practice safe sex, reports <b>John Thawite.</b>
LACK of brailed messages on condom use is denying the blind vital information to practice safe sex, reports John Thawite.
The western regional representative for the National Union of the Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU), Betty Kwagala, said this on Thursday while meeting Kasese RDC, Musa Ecweru, at his Boma Ground offices.
Kwagala was in the district with the NUDIPU administrative officer, Fabiano Opira, to hand 21 bicycles to the Kasese district NUDIPU branch.
She said persons with disabilities were at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS because they were not able to read the messages written on condoms.
“If you exclude us in the war against AIDS, you expose us to the infection,†she said.
Kwagala said, “You may not see it during the day but at night, many men prefer to have sex with disabled women because they think that being disabled, they are free from HIV because no one can go to bed with such a woman.â€
She said disabled women can infect more men than the able-bodied ones. Ends
The western regional representative for the National Union of the Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU), Betty Kwagala, said this on Thursday while meeting Kasese RDC, Musa Ecweru, at his Boma Ground offices.
Kwagala was in the district with the NUDIPU administrative officer, Fabiano Opira, to hand 21 bicycles to the Kasese district NUDIPU branch.
She said persons with disabilities were at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS because they were not able to read the messages written on condoms.
“If you exclude us in the war against AIDS, you expose us to the infection,†she said.
Kwagala said, “You may not see it during the day but at night, many men prefer to have sex with disabled women because they think that being disabled, they are free from HIV because no one can go to bed with such a woman.â€
She said disabled women can infect more men than the able-bodied ones. Ends