After accepting a Commonwealth award for his government's campaign against AIDS, Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni declared his country has no homosexuals. "We don't have homosexuals in Uganda so this is mainly heterosexual transmission." His comment follows a report by Amnesty International of homosexuals being tortured in Uganda and other countries including Pakistan, Argentina, Russia and the U.S. Museveni has led an aggressive AIDS prevention campaign since 1986 credited with slashing the African nation's infection rate among adults from 28 percent to less than 10 percent.
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After accepting a Commonwealth award for his government's campaign against AIDS, Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni declared his country has no homosexuals. "We don't have homosexuals in Uganda so this is mainly heterosexual transmission." His comment follows a report by Amnesty International of homosexuals being tortured in Uganda and other countries including Pakistan, Argentina, Russia and the U.S. Museveni has led an aggressive AIDS prevention campaign since 1986 credited with slashing the African nation's infection rate among adults from 28 percent to less than 10 percent.
