Graca Machel on Tuesday urged Ugandan authorities to share lessons learned in its fight against Aids with other African states.
Uganda has achieved remarkable success against Aids, cutting HIV infection rates from 30% in 1990 to five percent today.
”We need you [Ugandans] to take the regional political drive to show others that this can be done,” Machel said when she called on Uganda’s Foreign Minister James Wapakhabulo.
Machel arrived in Kampala overnight accompanying United Nations special envoy for Aids in Africa Stephen Lewis on a week-long tour of Uganda, during which they will visit Aids projects in the east African country.
Machel and Lewis visited Mulago Hospital, Kampala’s main health facility, where they talked to pregnant women infected with the HIV virus and who are receiving anti-retroviral drugs designed to prevent transmission of the Aids-causing virus to their unborn babies.
They are due to meet on Wednesday with President Yoweri Museveni before embarking on a tour of some of the rural areas most affected by Aids. – Sapa-AFP