Fahamu (Oxford)
4 December 2008
In this paper, Azad Essa explores the extent to which Africa's military has been affected by HIV/AIDS. He outlines the varied responses from Africa's armed forces, with a specific focus on recruitment, care and precarious human rights issues pertaining to HIV-positive personnel. While the scarcity of statistical data forces analysts to continue speculating the challenges, effects and extent of the ...
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Fighting HIV in the military and IDP camps starts with enforcing peace in all countries through encouraging peacefull settlement of conflicts. Today atleast Uganda has experienced a reduction in the HIV infection in the army since the Juba peace talks it had with the LRA rebels. Therefore we shall only win this war by peacefull conflict resolutions.Matovu Quraish. Uganda