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Mayor's AIDS plans to benefit disabled

    JOHANNESBURG

    The city council of Uganda's capital, Kampala, is to collaborate with various organisations in an effort to prevent the spread of HIV among disabled persons.

    According to the Mayor, John Ssebaana-Kizito, people with disabilities are among the groups most vulnerable to infection.

    A local newspaper, The Monitor, quoted him as saying: "The deaf cannot hear verbal HIV/AIDS messages while the blind hardly read the written messages and the lame find it difficult to travel to various centres with information regarding HIV/AIDS."

    Ssebaana-Kizito also recently met with Canadian officials to discuss ways of improving home-based care for people living with HIV and AIDS.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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