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From:	Gabriel ADEYEMO [ profile ]
Subject:	Uganda faces condom shortage as demand soars........
Sent:	Mar 8th, 2012 - 11:25:17

	SOURCE:* Xinhua News Agency* http://www.thebody.com/content/65923/uganda-faces-condom-shortage-as-demand-soars.html My fellow Colleague!!! on a lighter note..........lol.., let us remember our Ugandan brothers and sisters in our daily wishes as they are out of the present HIV vaccine "condoms". I hope the next news i shall hear about them will not be that incidence rate of HIV has doubled or tripled...... Where is UNFPA and other Condom Stations?? Ugandans need your help please.........."on a lighter note" An increase in demand for condoms is causing Uganda to face a supply shortage, a top Ministry of Health official said recently. Zainab Akol, the ministry's manager of the AIDS Control Program, said the east African nation needs about 3 billion condoms annually to meet the demand of the 10 million or so people who are sexually active. "We import about 120 million condoms a year but the consumption is high. A quick calculation is that every person has four condoms for a full year," Akol told the Daily Monitor newspaper. "Recently, we received about 10 million condoms from and but still that is not enough," she said. Thanks for reading through.........Lets put all hands on deck and make prevention options available mostly of young people that needs them... -- Many Thanks Yours' in Prevention Science Gabriel, ADEYEMO Regional Focal Point - West Africa Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AID (GYCA), a program of the Public Health Institute +234-80-6798-7317 \| gabriel (at) gyca.org www.gyca.org \| www.phi.org GYCA is a youth-led global network of over 6,500 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 173 countries world-wide. GYCA's mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers. My United Nations Pledge 2011-2012: "To lend my wit and my strength to the AIDS Response guiding global youth towards one goal: Zero HIV: Zero AIDS Related Deaths, Zero New Infections, Zero Stigma"

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