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KAMPALA. – Police in Uganda have accused a US-funded HIV and Aids project that they raided last week of paying young men to become homosexuals, a report said yesterday.
Quoting a police statement explaining the operation, the Daily Monitor said the Walter Reed Project, which provides treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS, had been “infiltrated” by officers and was found to be recruiting gays.
“Police deployed crime intelligence officers to verify the claims, by infiltrating the project. Two officers undertook the assignment and were registered for training by the NGO and found out that the trainees were being shown videos of men engaging in homosexual activity,” the police statement said.
“The training targeted youth between the ages of 18 and 25. The trainees were shown videos of men engaging in homosexual activity, and . . . given literature describing safe sexual practice between males, as well as condoms and lubricants,” it added.
There was no immediate reaction from the organisation to the latest report, although the Daily Monitor quoted a US embassy spokesperson in Kampala, which helps fund the project, as dismissing the police account as “fabrications”. – AFP.
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