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HIV/AIDS is once again in the news and most importantly its about the prevalence rate in the Ugandan army.
Over the past 21 years, the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has fought a number of wars among which are the liberation war 1986, the clashing with Rwanda army in the Congo and for all those years battling the self-styled Lord’s Resistance Army rebel leader Joseph Kony. Not counting the current deployments in both and Darfur as part of the peacekeeping African Union force.
In all these wars, the soldiers are known to take on all sorts of wives, and like it is normally the norm in war situations, rape of women cannot also be ruled out.
Well now, it appears like pay-back-time and many of the army elite fighters are slowly but surely going to their final resting places 6 feet under the ground in their prime years. The situation is so alarming that it has has come to the notice of the commander in Chief, President Museveni. While passing out candidates recently he mentioned that more soldiers have died of HIV/AIDS than at the war front.
The report published in the Weekly Observer today mentions that the prevalence among the Uganda People’s defense Forces are 30% more than four times above the national prevalence rate of 6.7%.
Now that the anti-HIV/AIDS coalition has found its new battle ground, lets hope about same time next year, that a similar report indicates significant success against HIV/AIDS in the army.
RSS 
I personnaly feel bad for the soldiers but of late i highly thought about the uniformed forces having heard of enough wierd and bad stories about them,recently an officer stabbed his pregnant girlfriend who was also an officer after a heated argument, such a case is synomymous with the uniformed officers, during the post election violence the soldiers were acussed of raping women, its ironical that the same people who are supposed to protect us inflict pain instead, statics also have it that the uniformed are so vulnerable to HIV/Aids also and a good number of them have been swept by the same. I think during their training they undergo enough torture such that they acquire wierd characters that drive them to commiting such deeds.
”pay-back-time” comes, it may be little too late but it comes for sure.
Its so worse for those who commit crimes as the pain they experience makes them regret the very reason for their bad actions.
It has caught up with the army and it will surely catch up on all the African dictators wrecking havoc on their fellow countrymen!