In Uganda, the fight against HIV/AIDS has been the struggle for them for quite a while and one which is decreasing the population in this country. Despite this current situation the country’s leaders try very hard to reduce the stigma associated with being HIV positive for Ugandans around the world. Tourism is not a vibrant industry in Uganda, despite its obvious beauty and it is widely assumed this is due to because the fear of coming into contact with anyone with this non-discriminatory disease. After conducting my research, despite the government’s attempts to distribute free condoms and a massive public information campaign the general this seems to have had very little impact on the behaviour patterns of the citizens. Thus, ending this plague hasn’t been successful over the years. The rates at which HIV/AIDs spreads in Uganda are increasing not only in cities, but villages too, the survey shows. Adult husbands and wives, not youths or commercial sex workers, are the ones spreading the disease, according to the survey. By their late 30s, roughly one in 10 women now become H.I.V. positive. For men, roughly one in 10 are infected by their early 40s. “An estimated 1.7 million people in Uganda are …show more content…
“In relation to the latter, the concept of “zero grazing” was developed, this is an agricultural term that is closely understood by anyone in this largely agricultural society, and which refers to feeding one’s cattle exclusively within the paddock. The humorous double meaning that applies to HIV prevention maintains that one keeps to an exclusive and monogamous relationship, also “within the paddock”. There is strong evidence that a large portion of the Ugandan population has taken up the practice of zero grazing, a phenomenon that has been described as being “equivalent to a highly effective vaccine” for HIV”