AIDS: Catholic secretariate adviser calls for behavioural change
BEHAVIOURAL change is the key to the fight against HIV/AIDS, the Catholic Secretariat adviser, Ronald Kamara, has said. “Campaigns that support the usage of condoms, male circumcision and usage of vaginal microbicides to prevent HIV infections are likely to be counter-productive.
By Conan Businge
BEHAVIOURAL change is the key to the fight against HIV/AIDS, the Catholic Secretariat adviser, Ronald Kamara, has said. “Campaigns that support the usage of condoms, male circumcision and usage of vaginal microbicides to prevent HIV infections are likely to be counter-productive.
“We should not embrace all campaigns without being keen. It is important for us to work on behavioural change other than wasting time on prevention technologies,†Kamara advised.
He urged religious leaders to participate in anti-AIDS campaigns. “We need to face the reality. There is some one out there being infected every time we shy away,†he said at the launch of an anti-AIDS project for Kampala Archdiocese at Pope Paul Memorial Hotel on Monday.
The project, worth sh180m, is funded by part of the sh2.7b the US Agency for International Development donated to the Inter-religious Council of Uganda.
The project will benefit 1.2 million adults and 800,000 youth.
Rosemary Kindyomunda of the Uganda AIDS Commission attended the function.
BEHAVIOURAL change is the key to the fight against HIV/AIDS, the Catholic Secretariat adviser, Ronald Kamara, has said. “Campaigns that support the usage of condoms, male circumcision and usage of vaginal microbicides to prevent HIV infections are likely to be counter-productive.
“We should not embrace all campaigns without being keen. It is important for us to work on behavioural change other than wasting time on prevention technologies,†Kamara advised.
He urged religious leaders to participate in anti-AIDS campaigns. “We need to face the reality. There is some one out there being infected every time we shy away,†he said at the launch of an anti-AIDS project for Kampala Archdiocese at Pope Paul Memorial Hotel on Monday.
The project, worth sh180m, is funded by part of the sh2.7b the US Agency for International Development donated to the Inter-religious Council of Uganda.
The project will benefit 1.2 million adults and 800,000 youth.
Rosemary Kindyomunda of the Uganda AIDS Commission attended the function.