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CONTINUUM vol 5, no 3

Uganda on my mind

by Winifred Mwebe

"The Ugandan public is convinced an individual's blood is checked to find the ' virus' in the body - 'moving up and down' - the insect or the bug as they term it in local dialects." Download (PDF 3.5mb)

 

Winifred Mwebe is a 40 year old Ugandan mother of three young adults. She has worked as a volunteer with several Ugandan organisations. Since the HIV/AIDS hypothesis arrived in Uganda in the early 1980s, she has always had reservations on this issue but found no-one who respected her doubts.

“I have lost so many friends to this so-called AIDS-disease. The support I got from Continuum gave me
strength to express my views.” She is a regular volunteer at Continuum.