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Workers' AIDS treatment centre launched

    JOHANNESBURG

    The Uganda Business Coalition against HIV/AIDS (UBC) has set up a workers' treatment centre in the capital, Kampala, for employees living with the HI virus and their families.

    UBC information resource manager, Robert Wanyama, said the initiative also aimed to encourage better AIDS care for employees of government departments, NGOs, and private companies, because many skilled workers who were not easily replaceable died daily of AIDS-related illnesses.

    Wanyama was quoted by a local newspaper, New Vision, as saying: "There is a need to focus our resources and creative energies in a systematic and sustained workplace response, to reverse the HIV/AIDS pandemic."

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