2008 Gatekeeper Trip: Ugandan President Museveni on HIV/AIDS

Twice a year the International Reporting Project (IRP) awards up to 12 U.S. "gatekeeper" editors fellowships to travel as a group on an intensive fact-finding visit to a single important but somewhat under covered country in the news.

In May 2008 12 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Uganda for a 10-day International Reporting Project (IRP) Gatekeeper Editors trip. They were accompanied by Ben de la Cruz of Washingtonpost.com, who shot video during the trip.

The editors met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni for a two and a half hour interview on a wide range of topics, including HIV/AIDS, population, agricultural development and economic growth. In the following excerpt Museveni answers a question about HIV/AIDS.

For more information about the IRP Gatekeepers trip please visit:

www.internationalreportingproject.org

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• Museveni
• Circumcision

[2live42day]

Circumcision does not prevent HIV and AIDS. Circumcision is not new in Africa. This man knows it. Abstinence, being faithful to each other and condom use helped slow it down but once men started relaxing and went back to their old habits it went back up again.

[freedom0f5peech]

"All 3 HIV studies were terminated early, before incidence of infection in sexually abstained circumcised males could catch up with incidence of infection in the non-circumcised males. If the studies had continued for their scheduled time, there would have been no difference between the circumcised group and the non-circumcised group. Mills & Siegfried point out that early termination caused the numbers to be exaggerated."

Lancet 2006;368:1236

Health Matters 2007;15(29):33-44

[karinakk99]

well said your excellency.Top man

[Kyoshiko]

My Hubby was in Uganda for a solid month this summer as a Director of Photography for an AIDES documentary on this part of Africa. He accumulated over 20 hours of video footage and 2000 pictures of Kampala, Tororo, Jinja, and parts of Uganda of which he had no idea he was located. I have seen some of the footage and these people are so poor.

Kyo

[zuluman2008]

what proof is there circumcision does NOT PREVENT HIV/AIDS full stop he is right..

[nalwoga0256]

nosence,this man is terrorism his people,he is finishing people he think he will never die

[abujja11]

google this and see...

expose uganda genocide

[asiimwejob]

"as a way of life" lol

[heavens2betzy]

the voice of reason; this guy says it all, circumcision hasn't proved anything, it was education and condoms that lowered hiv by 50% not circumcision-

[intactivist1]

Male circumcision is NOT "a promising new way of combating HIV/AIDS." It is a very old, sexually harmful and depleting surgery looking for a new opportunity for validation. That is the history of circumcision, looking for a reason to exist by applying itself to what ever the current medical fear of the day is. There is none. This man is intelligent.