Kampala — PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has asked UNICEF to mobilise funds for post-primary education of HIV/AIDS orphans.

Museveni made the appeal on Wednesday while meeting the executive director of the UN children's agency, Ann Veneman, who called on him at Uganda House in New York.

The President is in the US for the UN General Assembly.

State House said Veneman reaffirmed UNICEF's commitment to improving the plight of children, especially by providing clean water.

She said UNICEF was planning a new initiative on HIV/AIDS focused on the mother and child. Museveni and Veneman discussed the plight of children in the north.

"He assured her that terrorists in the north had been weakened and there was no more abduction of children," said a State House statement. He said the Government was working towards restoring confidence among the people.