Uganda: No Longer Taboo to Talk about HIV/AIDS

The Washington Post reported on 19 February 2004 that Uganda has seen a considerable decline in the taboos surrounding HIV/AIDS. Consequently over the last ten years, Uganda's HIV prevalence rate has dropped from 30 per cent to five per cent. According to the Washington Post the openness with which people discuss the disease is due in part to the fact that Uganda was one of the first countries in Africa to confront HIV/AIDS.