
A new national HIV/AIDS strategic plan for Uganda is due to be finalized before the year’s end, and gay rights activists are urging its authors to break with tradition and, for the first time, provide for programming for men who have sex with men.

A new national HIV/AIDS strategic plan for Uganda is due to be finalized before the year’s end, and gay rights activists are urging its authors to break with tradition and, for the first time, provide for programming for men who have sex with men.

International funding for HIV fell by 10 percent in 2010 from the previous year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS; activists worry that a continued reduction will undermine progress in global HIV prevention and treatment efforts.

A new government study has found that more than half of workers in Swaziland’s garment industry are living with HIV, and officials are realizing that the once-hailed promise of manufacturing employment has become a financial and medical nightmare for tens of thousands of Swazi women.