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December 09, 2011

Globe and Mail: HIV on the rise again in Uganda

by Geoffrey York
The Globe and Mail

Motorcycle taxi driver Richard Okiror has seen the devastating cost of AIDS firsthand. He has watched people wasting away and dying from a virus that infected nearly one-fifth of all adults in his country. His own parents died of AIDS in the 1990s when he was a teenager, leaving him an orphan.

Yet today, in an era of life-saving medicine, he notices that his friends are less worried by the virus. Some of them, he says, are even paying extra money to prostitutes for sex without a condom.

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