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< Here is the text of the BILL HIV AND AIDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL BILL, 2009< ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES Clauses PART 1 – PRELIMINARY 1. Commencement 2. Interpretation PART II – PREVENTION OF HIV 3. Reasonable care to be taken to avoid transmission of HIV PART III - HIV AND AIDS COUNSELLING AND TESTING 4. Pre-test and post-test HIV counselling 5. Counselling to be conducted by trained HIV counsellors 6. Nature of pre-test counselling 7. Nature of post-test Counselling 8. Continuous counselling 9. HIV testing services 10. Voluntary HIV Testing 11. Persons incapable of giving informed consent to HIV testing 12. Consent to test for HIV may be dispensed with 13. HIV testing for purposes of criminal proceedings. 14. Routine HIV testing. 15. HIV testing under a court order 16. Provision of appropriate treatment to HIV positive pregnant woman. 17. Testing of the new born child exposed to HIV.

Members of the national forum of people living with hiv/aids ( nafophanu) held joint world aids day activiuties with uhspauganda in a march from kawempe, through kazo up to nabweru grounds in wakiso district to remember those who have passed on and those living with the virus. members braved the cold weather and heavy down pour as they marched through the informal settlements, rallying community and households to vct,and being part of the day celebrations

Members of Uganda Health and science press association participated in the world aids day on december 1,2009 in which they highlighted and denounced a clause in the hiv/aids bill which seeks to criminalise the intentional spread of hiv. members were concerned that the bill targets women for passing on the virus to their children, even when a infection may be from a partner during pregnancy. a campaign to make an ammendment to the bill has been launchd by member media houses

Members from Uganda National Farmers Federation, At Uganda, UNADA,UHSPA-UGANDA, crop life uganda and usja at the seminar

UHSPA Trains journalists on counterfeits agro inputs The Uganda Health and Science Press Association on December 8,2009 held a one day training seminar for 50 journalists from both print and electronic media houses about the problem of counterfeits in the country. The seminar was held at Ivy's Hotel, Wakaliga in Kampala This was on the basis that members needed to be alerted about highlighting in their media, talk shows and columns the danger that counterfeit seeds, seedlings, agro chemicals pose to the environment,human health and food security. Dr Rita Laker Ojok, the Executive Director for Appropriate Technology,Uganda who supported the seminar financially said Uganda was threatened with declining food shortages. According to FAO Uganda’s agricultural productivity is constantly going down, despite a 3.2% annual population growth, one of the highest in the world. The country has registered a decline in real agricultural terms from 7.9% in 2001 to 0.7% in 2007/2008, rising to 2.6%

Sweden has joined the growing list of countries heaping pressure on Uganda to discard a proposed law that would severely punish homosexuality. According to comments attributed to Gunilla Carlsson, Sweden’s development assistance minister, the Swedish government says it would cut aid to Uganda over an anti-gay law they find “appalling”. “My number two at the ministry, who has direct contact with the Ugandan government, has brought it up,” Ms Carlsson recently told Swedish Radio News. “We’ve talked about it in Uganda, and I’ve also tried to speak to the kind of organisations in Uganda that are the target of the legislation.” Uganda receives about $50 million in development aid from Sweden annually. Swedish Radio News reported online, in a November 30 article, that the Scandinavian country would consider discontinuing development aid to Uganda if the law was introduced. cLICK HERE FOR DETAILS: http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Sweden_to_cut_aid_over_anti-gay_law_95484.shtml