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Gender minister advises parents to speak to their children about AIDS

Isaac Senabulya — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 07:31:36 +0000

Gender, labour and social development minister, Muluri Mukasa

The gender, labour and social development minister, Muruli Mukasa is advising parents to always take off time and speak to their children about the deadly HIV/AIDS disease if the country is to scale down on new infections among the adolescents.

Speaking at the opening of the stakeholders meeting, the minister reveals that adolescents are these days having the biggest numbers of people living with the disease as they are engaged in cross generation relationships coupled with networks which lead to the spread of the disease and its upon this time that parents have to talk to their children, mainly the girls, to protect themselves. He further calls for full implementation of the AIDS legislation saying this is one way in which the disease will be reduced from being negligently passed on to others.

This national stakeholder’s workshop has been organized to harmonize health, education, protection, and empowerment interventions that will better address the unique risks and vulnerabilities faced by adolescent girls, in a coordinated and coherent way.

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Benefits of safe male circumcision

Walakira — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:58:32 +0000

Male circumcision offers partial protection to HIV negative males who have unprotected sex with HIV positive females.

Male circumcision protects males against various Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDS) and STI’s. Uncircumcised men are more likely to harbour the cancer-causing HUMAN PAPILOMA VIRUS (HPV) in their fore skin.

Circumcision therefore offers protection from prostate cancer, and it also offers protection from ulcerative sexually transmitted disease including genital herpes, syphilis and cancroids.

Safe Male circumcision further offers protection from retraction of the glands [head of the penis] and other recurrent infections of the foreskin which leads to loss of skin elasticity. It also offers protection from balanitis, inflammation of the head of penis and protect from thrush caused by Candida.

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Muruli Mukasa wants protection for security officers in Anti Torture bill

Gerald Businge — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:36:59 +0000

Security minister Muluri Mukasa has supported the Anti torture bill currently being scrutinized by the legal and parliamentary affairs committee of parliament saying it will outlaw torture.

However he suggests that the law should be balanced to protect the people who collect information from suspects which can be used for successful prosecution.

Muluri who was giving views on this bill before the committee, says that if the bill is not balanced, the people responsible for interrogating suspects will fear to do their work well.

The bill was tabled before parliament as a private members bill by Ndorwa east mp Wilfred Niwagaba to make torture a crime.

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