New law threatens human rights of Ugandans, violates citizens’ privacy rights and forces testing on pregnant women
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 22, 2014. Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed legislation this week criminalizing the transmission of HIV, a measure that allows doctors to violate confidentiality and disclose their patients’ HIV status without consent and calls for mandatory testing for pregnant women and their partners in violation of their human rights.
While the “HIV Prevention and AIDS Control Bill”…
