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The acting commissioner for labor in the ministry of gender, labor and social development Harriet Luyima has indicated that HIV/AIDS has led to increased worst forms of child labour like prostitution.
HIV/AIDS is one of the leading causes of deaths in the country affecting mostly women and children.
Government efforts to curb the disease has been hampered by mismanagement of HIV/AIDS funds, ignorance of the people and poverty.
Speaking at a workshop for Sub Sahara Africa on HIV/AIDS, Luyima said that hundreds of children are being induced into child labour to get the basic necessities of life like food, shelter and clothing for survival.
She says that the majority of Uganda’s 1.5million child laborers have been caused by death of parents from HIV/AIDS related causes.
Luyima says that most of the child laborers are engaged in the domestic sector and invisible activities like commercial sex.
Although HIV/AIDS is blamed for causing increased child labour poverty especially in rural areas is the leading cause of child poverty.
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