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First Lady Hosts Her Ethiopian Counterpart 4 NEW VISION, Wednesday March 8, 2017 NATIONAL NEWS HIV/AIDS Prevention Pregnancies Nutrition By Vision Reporter The two ladies The First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Museveni, First Lady hosts her shared experiences has hosted her counterpart Roman Tesfaye Abneh, wife of the Ethiopian prime minister who was in Uganda on the work they accompanying her husband on a three-day state visit last week. do under the The two First Ladies held a meeting Ethiopian counterpart at State House Entebbe on Thursday, during which they shared experiences Organisation of on the work they both do, among this the activities under the Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV/ African First Ladies AIDS (OAFLA) in their respective countries. Against HIV/AIDS The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Gender Labour and Social Development, Hajat Janat in their respective Mukwaya; the UNAIDS Resident Representative, Sande Amakobe; countries UNICEF Representative Aida Girma, UNFPA Representative Miranda Tadifor, executive director for Uganda mother-to-child transmission of AIDS Commission Dr Christine HIVAIDS in Uganda and saluted Ondoa, the executive director OAFLA Uganda for reaching that level. Uganda, Beatilda Bisangwa and MPs She said in their country, they who are champions against HIV/AIDS use the door–to-door approach to among children and adolescents. sensitise the people on the prevention Janet Museveni, who is the founder and treatment of HIV/AIDS. and patron of the Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV/ Resisting modern practices AIDS — Uganda Chapter (OAFLA-U, Tesfaye, however, noted that they observed that for Uganda to attain a still face a big challenge of some HIV/AIDS-free generation, there is communities who are not easy to need to ensure that all children born mobilise because they largely follow are without infection and that all the traditional beliefs and have not yet infected adults are put on treatment fully embraced the modern approach and encouraged not to spread the of preventing HIV/AIDS. disease further. Tesfaye also said that cancer is a “If all babies born now are free of big problem in their country and the HIV/AIDS and then we get the adults Government was in the process of who are sick treated, the number of Janet Museveni (right) with Roman Tesfaye during a meeting at State House, Entebbe on Thursday establishing cancer screening centres those infected with the disease will in every district of the country reduce with time until we get that This was after a presentation because it managed to bring down in the country that they requested She said she is involved in the HIV-free generation,” Mrs Museveni by Bisangwa about Uganda’s the infections in newly born children Mrs Museveni to also champion the nutrition programmes to ensure said. achievement in the elimination of each year from 30,000 in 2012 to less cause among the adolescents against that in the inner city every child gets She expressed the Government’s mother-to-child transmission of HIV/ than 3,500 in 2016. teenage pregnancies which she breakfast and lunch while at school, commitment to continue mobilising AIDS (EMTCT). She reported that Bisangwa said the success of the graciously accepted. this is for vulnerable schools which the communities to fight against HIV/ Uganda was declared number one in EMTCT in Uganda was such an Tesfaye commended Mrs Museveni include orphans and children in AIDS. the success of the EMTCT programme encouragement to the stakeholders for spearheading the eliminationof single parent homes. Ugandans going to Middle East intercepted in Kenya, deported By Egessa Hajusu The deportees are just some persons report released by the of the hundreds of Ugandans, US Department of State in June Kenyan authorities at the Busia “We are looking for the suspected especially women, who are 2016. border have handed over 13 trafficked annually with the The report implicated both people deported for illegally traffickers who aided them to majority of the cases remaining licensed and unlicensed staying in Kenya. unreported and unrecorded. Kampala-based security The deportees include eight Binoga Most of the trafficked women companies and employment women, some of whom had Kenya using fake passports.” end up working in the agencies in the continued been convicted and jailed Middle East, where most are trafficking of Ugandans to work at Langata Women Prison sexually abused and tortured, as security guards, labourers in Kenya. According to six months in jail, while others Kenya using fake passports,” sometimes to death. and drivers in the Middle East. Police (Uganda), the victims had opted to pay fines ranging Binoga said. “Some Ugandan migrant (deportees) are aged between from sh800,000 to sh1.7m. Torture victims workers endured forced labour 19 and 36. Use registered companies Binoga In January last year, the country in South Sudan, United Arab The deportees were received Forged passports Binoga urged the youth was taken aback by the news Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia at the border by Moses Binoga said the women were intending to go and work in secured jobs there. of 24 Ugandan girls who were and Qatar, even when recruited Binoga, the commissioner going to Oman, Saudi Arabia the Middle East to use the All the women referred to a held hostage in the Riyadh by licensed agencies,” the for prevention of trafficking and Dubai to work as house services of companies licensed man, only identified as Fred, city of Saudi Arabia, where report reads, adding that many in persons, at the Ministry of girls. by the Government to recruit who they said had taken them they had been detained for young women end up in forced Internal Affairs. “Security operatives picked workers. to Kenya through illegal routes months, subjected to torture, prostitution in the UAE, Oman, Addressing journalists them when their passports He said the Government at the Busia and Malaba border discrimination, rape and work Saudi Arabia and Qatar. at Busia Police Station on were found to have forged exit had registered 63 companies points. without pay. The Government According to the report, Monday, Binoga said the male and entry immigration stamps to recruit and take people to Others claimed that their later rescued some of them. “illegal Kampala-based labour victims were illegally staying at the Jomo Kenyatta Airport,” work abroad and cautioned passports had been confiscated In 2015, the Government recruiters and brokers also and working in Kenya, while Binoga said. the youth against trusting and they were instead given investigated 108 trafficking operated in Rwanda”. their female counterparts were “Illegal recruiters from individuals and companies fake travel documents. cases involving 347 victims; The report adds illegal intercepted at the airport in Uganda worked with their which are not registered. Last year, the Police and it reported 15 prosecutions Nairobi-based recruiters were Nairobi en route to the Middle counterparts in Kenya and The victims, who requested the immigration officials and three convictions, active in Uganda, recruiting East to look for jobs. made them cross the border not be identified, said they intercepted 270 girls at the in comparison with 23 Ugandans, Rwandans and Binoga said the two of the through ungazetted routes. We were lured into going to the border. According to Binoga, prosecutions and four Kenyans through fraudulent female deportees had been are looking for the suspected Middle East by their sisters and the majority were from Busia convictions the previous year, employment offers in the convicted and sentenced to traffickers who helped them other friends who had already and Malaba. according to the trafficking in Middle East and Asia.”.
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