World Bank to Provide Loan to Uganda for AIDS FightThe Ugandan government has negotiated a loan of US$47.5 million from the World Bank to support HIV/AIDS programs over the next five years, Director General of Uganda AIDS Commission Kihumuro Apuuli said in Kampala Friday.Apuuli told Xinhua that a World Bank mission had arrived in the country to finalize the support for Uganda to respond effectively to the HIV/AIDS problem. The loan is expected to be available in April next year, which will finance the country's national HIV/AIDS initiatives, integrated district HIV/AIDS programs and community HIV/AIDS initiatives. Alexandre Abrantes, a specialist with the World Bank, said the community initiative is a new package that will provide assistance to HIV/AIDS orphans by keeping them in schools. Some 0.8 million Ugandans have been killed by AIDS and 1.7 million children have been orphaned. By the end of last year, 1.4 million people in Uganda were living with HIV/AIDS. |
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