Expanding HIVAIDS prevention programmes through Safe Male Circumcision and Voluntary Counselling and Testing in Uganda
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2013
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Although Uganda initially registered large reductions
in HIV/AIDS prevalence rate during the 1990s, the rate
of new HIV infection is on the rise across the country.
At least 1.2 million Ugandans are infected with the HIV
virus1 . Recent evidence from the 2011 Uganda AIDS
Indicator Survey revealed that the HIV/AIDS prevalence
rate had increased from 6.4 percent in 2004/5 to 7.3
percent by 20112. The trends in new HIV infections in
figure 1 suggest that the annual number of new HIV
infections increased by 11.4 percent from 115,775
in 2007/08 to 128,980 in 2010/11, despite the huge
amounts of resources earmarked for HIV/AIDS related
expenditures. The increase in the HIV/AIDS prevalence
has been blamed on the complacency of Ugandans with
the availability of anti-retrovaral therapies (ARTs)—
especially regarding sexual behavior.