Uganda, Dec. 1 -- Today, Uganda joins the rest of the world to commemorate World Aids Day.

Although there has been a reduction in HIV prevalence among the general population, the country continues to register new infections among adolescents and young women.

Dr Mary Otieno, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) country representative, attributes the increase in new infections to poverty, which she says has increased adolescents' and women's vulnerability to HIV "especially when it is aggregated by inequalities between men and women as poor women who are financially dependent on men have no choice but to accept practices that put them at risk of contracting HIV."

". close to two-thirds of new infections in 2021 were ...