Access
This article is part of Nature's premium content.
Published online 18 August 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060814-13
News
HIV in Uganda no longer falling
Early success in AIDS prevention may have been overturned.
Hard-earned gains in the fight against AIDS may be eroding in Uganda, according to data presented Thursday at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada.
The data are disheartening because Uganda was the first country in southern Africa to report a drop in both the rate of new infections and the percentage of the overall population infected with the HIV virus.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Comments
Reader comments are usually moderated after posting. If you find something offensive or inappropriate, you can speed this process by clicking 'Report this comment' (or, if that doesn't work for you, email webadmin@nature.com). For more controversial topics, we reserve the right to moderate before comments are published.
There are currently no comments.
