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A condom ad in Kampala; some were replaced by abstinence ads
Ugandans learned their ABCs before other Africans. That's ABC as in Abstinence, Being faithful and using a Condom. The east African nation was at the center of the aids pandemic when it began in the 1980s and was the first African country to fight the disease seriously. The ABC approach has helped cut the
hiv
rate in adults from more than 15% in 1990 to just under 7% today.
Has the Ugandan government now forgotten its alphabet? A group of Ugandan and Western organizations and a senior U.N. aids expert claim that Uganda has over the...
