The National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS has appealed to the government of Uganda to scale up its investment in the Anti- retroviral treatment and care.

The much needed ARV drugs

This comes after an earlier revelation in a report that treatment reduces HIV/AIDS transmission rates by about 92%

The Program Officer of NACWOLA, Florence Buluuba has told journalists at Parliament that if the government scales up investment in treatment of HIV/AIDS, it is capable of saving more than 500,000 Ugandans that are in urgent need of the life prolonging treatment for HIV positive people.

Buluuba says that government should also look at treatment as an investment rather than looking at it as a liability to the government since the people that need this treatment positively contribute to the welfare of this country.

Buluuba says the government should also know that treatment of HIV/AIDS is also another way of preventing the spread HIV/AIDS since it has already been proved that HIV/AIDS reduces HIV/AIDS transmission by about 92%

She says only 50% of people living with HIV/AIDSin need of antiretroviral therapy receive the life prolonging medicines called Anti retroviral drugs.

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By Zacharia Tiberindwa, Ultimate Media