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Agony as personal details of HIV/Aids patients leak to the public

Patients in Uganda will have to deal with the agony of having their details public Photo:Courtesy

Having HIV/Aids in Uganda must be more difficult than carrying this terminal illness in any other country. Swallowing daily pills for the rest of your life, yet knowing that whatever the case, the whole thing will end in death unless a boda boda crash or a collapsing building kills you first must be bad enough.

But as if suffering with a terminal illness is not bad enough, now Ugandans living with HIV have to contend with the horror of the entire public knowing not only about their status, but the details of the treatment they are been undergoing as well.

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