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Article: Uganda Army to Test Aids Vaccine

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September 17, 1996
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The Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) have agreed to test aids vaccine and are ready to spearhead the trials, "the New Vision" paper quoted a group of medical officers as saying today.

The message was transmitted to Omwony Ojwok, Director General of Uganda Aids Commission yesterday at the opening of a two-day workshop in Mukono, some 22 kilometers east of Kampala.

The workshop is to equip medical officers with the current concepts on the management of Aids patients. Dr. Lukanga-Ndaula, Chief of Medical ...

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