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| Yoweri Museveni and wife Janet Museveni |
President Yoweri Museveni and wife Janet Museveni will tomorrow (Friday) publicly test for HIV along with key Ugandan leaders.
According to a statement issued by Uganda AIDS Commission, the President and the First Lady will test at Kiswa Health Center IV, opposite Shell Bugolobi in Kampala.
Museveni and his wife are leading by example in a bid to roll-back the HIV epidemic in Uganda.
The objective of the public HIV counseling and testing is to demonstrate to all Ugandans the importance of knowing your HIV status as an action towards an HIV-free generation.
The benefits of counseling and testing for HIV are: People who have tested are less likely to get infected and less likely to infect their loved ones, testing for HIV together as a couple helps a couple to support each other, and if one is HIV positive and another is negative, the negative person will be assisted to remain negative.
In addition to HIV counseling and testing, other HIV prevention methods are critical to reducing the spread of HIV, including: delaying first sex, abstinence, being faithful, correct and consistent condom use, voluntary counseling and testing, testing for HIV when pregnant to eliminate mother-to-child transmission, safe male circumcision, and antiretroviral therapy to reduce new HIV infections.
The President will call upon parents, teachers, all political, religious, cultural, and community leaders as well as the media in Uganda, to urge Ugandans to test for HIV and seek advice and care from a health facility and to encourage men to be actively involved in the health of their families.
The First Lady, the champion of the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV campaign in Uganda reminds all pregnant women to get tested for HIV.
According to a statement issued by Uganda AIDS Commission, the President and the First Lady will test at Kiswa Health Center IV, opposite Shell Bugolobi in Kampala.
Museveni and his wife are leading by example in a bid to roll-back the HIV epidemic in Uganda.
The objective of the public HIV counseling and testing is to demonstrate to all Ugandans the importance of knowing your HIV status as an action towards an HIV-free generation.
The benefits of counseling and testing for HIV are: People who have tested are less likely to get infected and less likely to infect their loved ones, testing for HIV together as a couple helps a couple to support each other, and if one is HIV positive and another is negative, the negative person will be assisted to remain negative.
In addition to HIV counseling and testing, other HIV prevention methods are critical to reducing the spread of HIV, including: delaying first sex, abstinence, being faithful, correct and consistent condom use, voluntary counseling and testing, testing for HIV when pregnant to eliminate mother-to-child transmission, safe male circumcision, and antiretroviral therapy to reduce new HIV infections.
The President will call upon parents, teachers, all political, religious, cultural, and community leaders as well as the media in Uganda, to urge Ugandans to test for HIV and seek advice and care from a health facility and to encourage men to be actively involved in the health of their families.
The First Lady, the champion of the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV campaign in Uganda reminds all pregnant women to get tested for HIV.
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