Postal company Posta Uganda has launched a workplace HIV/Aids awareness campaign to help reduce the spread of HIV among the workforce.
While talking at the launch of the campaign in Kampala, the Posta Uganda Research and Business Development Manager, Steven Andrew Kawesa, said that the campaign will be enforced at all Posta Uganda branches with an aim of sensitizing the staff on how they can safely protect their lives, accessibility to treatment and also promote social support for workers living with HIV and AIDS.
Dr. David Tigawalana, coordinator of the Uganda Aids Commission, said multiple partners, cross generation sex and guest houses that are visited, even during working hours, for commercial sex have increased the spread of HIV among people.
“This idea of having many sexual partners, visiting lodges, guest houses and hotels during working hours have escalated the continued spread of HIV infection, this have also dwindled the efforts to reduce on the new cases,” he said.
Tigawalana urged the public to enforce the principle of faithfulness and protected sex so as to reduce the spread of the scourge.
