
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.

The Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda is often associated with chronic food shortages, malnutrition and poverty, but the area is unlikely to suffer a food crisis in the coming months, officials and aid workers said.