Luweero gets sh80m for AIDS
May 14, 2008
PEOPLE living with HIV/AIDS in Luweero district have reason for hope. The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has given the district sh83m to help residents living with the virus start income generating projects, access anti-retroviral drugs and improve health care.
By Frederick Kiwanuka
PEOPLE living with HIV/AIDS in Luweero district have reason for hope. The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has given the district sh83m to help residents living with the virus start income generating projects, access anti-retroviral drugs and improve health care.
The country director of the alliance, Milly Katana, launched the programme in Luweero town on Monday. She said it would cover palliative care, HIV prevention, testing and counselling and support to orphans,.
Katana handed over three motorbikes and 54 bicycles to the facilitators to help them reach the beneficiaries in the villages.
Groups of people living with HIV/AIDS received cheques to start projects
Katana urged them against leading risky lives by avoiding re-infection because “it will make you weaker.â€
The infection rate currently stands at 6.4% of the population, she commented.
The chief administrative officer, Nelson Kirenda, told the programme implementers to serve everyone without considering their political leanings.
He also cautioned health workers against negligence, warning he would sack them.
PEOPLE living with HIV/AIDS in Luweero district have reason for hope. The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has given the district sh83m to help residents living with the virus start income generating projects, access anti-retroviral drugs and improve health care.
The country director of the alliance, Milly Katana, launched the programme in Luweero town on Monday. She said it would cover palliative care, HIV prevention, testing and counselling and support to orphans,.
Katana handed over three motorbikes and 54 bicycles to the facilitators to help them reach the beneficiaries in the villages.
Groups of people living with HIV/AIDS received cheques to start projects
Katana urged them against leading risky lives by avoiding re-infection because “it will make you weaker.â€
The infection rate currently stands at 6.4% of the population, she commented.
The chief administrative officer, Nelson Kirenda, told the programme implementers to serve everyone without considering their political leanings.
He also cautioned health workers against negligence, warning he would sack them.