Posted on 12/24/2004 5:35:26 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
KAMPALA (Reuters) - AIDS (news - web sites)-aware Ugandans, who use about 250,000 condoms a day, face a shortage of the product after the government introduced new condom tests likely to cut supply over the festive season, the Health Ministry on Friday.
The Ministry withdrew Engabu, a local popular brand that was emitting a bad smell, after the World Health Organization (news - web sites) found its quality deteriorated.
"We are going to face six months of limited supply," said Vastha Kibirige, a condom coordinator with the Health Ministry.
"We fear that in the meantime some people might have unprotected sex."
The National Drug Authority (NDA) tried to allay fears of a shortage during the festive season, a period over which it said demand for condoms doubles.
"I can show you documentary evidence to prove that over 80 million condoms will be arriving in the country soon on the order of the government. Actually 10 million are already here," said Deus Mubangizi, NDA's acting executive secretary.
The United Nations (news - web sites) says 25 million of the 38 million people worldwide with AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS killed up to 2.2 million Africans last year, while some 3 million contracted the HIV virus (news - web sites).
Uganda was once seen as the epicenter of the virus but the country has carried out an energetic information campaign that has helped bring down HIV (news - web sites) infection rates to about 6 percent from more than 30 percent in the early 1990s.
Still, the east African country has an estimated 1.2 million people who carry the HIV virus.
Among its hardest hit are populations in remote war-torn northern Uganda, where Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have waged a brutal insurgency for 18 years against the government of President Yoweri Museveni.
The Ugandan government in June began distributing free ARVs to about 3,000 HIV/AIDS sufferers.
You wouldn't happen to have a link or know what keywords I should search for that one?
Look at my post that is one above yours for a link.
By a friend who shall remain anonymous:
Oh Chanukkah O Hannukah
I'm not sure how to spell you
Oh Hanukkah O Channukah
I'm not sure how to spell you
Sometimes they add a C-H there
(Though that's comparatively rare)
Oh Hanukkah O Hannukah
I'm not sure how to spell you
Oh Hanukkah O Channukah
I'm not sure how to say you
Oh Chanukkah O Hannukah
I'm not sure how to say you
Sometimes it's just a plain hard 'H'
Sometimes it's got this sort of back at the throat about-to-hock-a-lugie
sound that I don't know how long it should go on for 'cause I'm just a
Methodist and they never taught us that stuff or indeed all that much about
Methodism...ish...ness
Oh Chanukkah O Channukah
I'm not sure how to say you
Men can be such babies sometimes!
These pikers on the sex after forty thread aren't fit to carry Mr. Okie's jockstrap. Oh, baby!
Well, I wouldn't know yet -- I just turned 39, for the first time. LOL! ;D
Some of them are giving *way* too much information!
Thank you! :D
De nada, chica.
I'm going to be 39 for the 7th time tomorrow. Mr. Okie is 63 and a stand-up guy, you know what I mean.
Now lie. Hehehehee.
YES, I know what you mean! And good for you! ;D
Lie about what?
Pay no attention to me, Too much Christmas cheer.
I didn't think they celebrated Kwaanzaa in Africa!
LOL good grief
Both my first girlfriend and my father had December 24th. birthdays.
I can't help but laugh at this headline, am I the only one that thinks it is hilarious?? Oh crud it's "The Holidays" and we are having a massive condom shortage (perhaps I don't understand all the local sexual rites performed during the "festive season". Maybe someone could enlighten me.
Too much holiday spirit...
And here I thought you wanted me to run over to that other thread and taunt them! ;D
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