News: HIV/AIDS In Uganda

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Its springtime 2010 and you are traveling through sub-Saharan Africa, say Malawi, Botswana, South Africa, back up to Uganda, in rural farming comm..., John Oldfield

Being gay may soon be punishable by death in the African country of Uganda. Under proposed legislation, homosexual or lesbian Ugandans would face life in prison, people who �aid or abet� them could serve up to 7 years, and those being convicted of same-sex rape or having HIV/AIDS would be executed.

Warren has in fact met with a top member of Uganda's parliament, and whether Warren has met with the President of Uganda or not is irrelevant. Rick Warren has met numerous times with Janet Museveni, wife to the president of Uganda and a top member of Uganda's parliament. Janet Museveni spoke at Warren's 2005 Saddleback Church HIV/AIDS US conference

Rachel Maddow and Jeff Sharlet discuss the ties between C-Street, Pastor Rick Warren and Congressional Reps from "The Family" and an anti-gay bill in Uganda that would allow lifetime imprisonment of homosexuals and people who fail to inform on them. It would also permit death by hanging for people with HIV/AIDS.

People living with HIV/Aids in Uganda are beginning to reduce their dosages of antiretrovirals because of lack of food. Officials are calling on the government to do more to solve the food crisis that is crippling east Africa.

HIV/Aids may have captured the world's headlines but in Uganda, and other parts of Africa, easily treatable illnesses are falling through the net. Last year the US spent $3bn on Aids programmes in Africa but invested a mere $30m on safe drinking water.

In Uganda, many people living with HIV/AIDS also struggle with TB infection. Over 30% of AIDS deaths are the result of TB-related complications. Health worker Simon Kabugo talks about tackling the problem of HIV and TB co-infection in rural areas.