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Uganda Criminalizes HIV Transmission; S. Sudan Ceasefire Fails Again
Uganda Passes Another Repressive Law — This Time Criminalising HIV Transmission. Ugandan AIDS groups have warned that the “ugly clauses” of an HIV bill passed by Parliament late Tuesday, which includes criminalization of the “willful and intentional” transmission of the disease, will lead many in this East African country to “shun the healthcare system”. Activists are urging President Yoweri Museveni not to sign the bill into law, describing certain parts as “poison” and a “giant leap backwards in the global struggle against HIV/AIDS.”
Not Yet a Week and Another South Sudan Ceasefire Fails. It has not yet been a week, but South Sudan’s most recent ceasefire appears set to collapse, along with hopes that – after five months of fighting – the country might finally be on the path to recovery. Under the revived deal, the two sides agreed not only to freeze their troops within 24 hours, but to give humanitarian groups access to thousands of civilians caught in combat zones. UNMISS announced within hours of the signing that they were standing by to begin deliveries of “life-saving aid” if the ceasefire took hold.
Source: IPS.
Paul Brown is a retired neuroscience professor whose primary interests are human rights, overpopulation, mass extinction, global warming, and the military-industrial complex. Links to all his Before It’s News articles are at /contributor/pages/189/210/stories.html.
