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How the politics of Aids, and now Covid-19, shape Uganda
Wednesday December 23 2020
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One of the most globally popular photographs depicting the brutal – and deadly – early enforcement of Covid-19 lockdowns in Africa, was that famous one by AFP showing a soldier (or was it LDU) beating female vendors in Kampala. Those kill-them-to-save-them-Covid early days partly explain the brutality against President Yoweri Museveni’s Opposition rivals in January’s election and their supporters have faced in recent weeks. And, in turn, it is traceable to the late 1980s and 1990s when HIV-Aids ravaged Uganda, and at time there were even references to the country as the “Aids epicentre”. It also offers some reason why we should be hopeful.