Uganda Health News: HIV/AIDS bill faces opposition
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First published: 20091126 11:15:59 AM EST
Ultimate Media
The supporters and advocates of the bill meant to punish those who intentionally spread HIV AIDS have a lot of work to do in convincing those opposed to the bill.
A cross section of Ugandans are against this bill saying the country still lacks the technology to tell who spread HIV/Aids to who, how and when.
Dora Musinguzi of the Uganda network on Law, Ethics and HIV AIDS has told journalists in Kampala today that the bill will receive strong criticism and it will also increase vulnerability to stigma and violence against those infected with the disease.
The bill, once passed into law, will see the culprits liable to life imprisonment among other deterrent measures.
Musinguzi also says that the politicians and other members of the society may use the bill once passed into law to smear their colleagues whom they have a grudge.
She says Uganda is a funny country. Someone can bribe a girl or a man to allege that a person X spread HIV to another person.
Recently the government of Uganda accused the main leader of opposition, Col. Kizza Besigye of having raped a woman and she got HIV. The court however later discovered that the allegations against Besigye were false.
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