NORTHERN PROVINCE

MUSANZE—Inmates in Ruhengeri Central Prison have been warned against indulging in activities that may lead them to contract HIV/Aids.

Addressing the group recently, Shad rack Sendungu, in-charge of Aids affairs in the prison, advised the inmates to abstain from sex and live a better life after prison.

Reading from the bible, Romans-8:6, he said: "the wages of sin is death, but to be controlled by the spirit [of God] results in life and peace.” The inmates living with the virus were also cautioned against deliberately infecting others with the virus.

Five plays and eight poems were played with messages portraying ways through which Aids has engulfed families and caused vicious cycles of despair and poverty, leaving hundreds of helpless orphans in Africa. The best plays and poems attracted rewards.

The prison Director Aloys Bujambi, called upon inmates to accept voluntary HIV testing to establish their status in order to receive special feeding.

He said those infected are given land where they grow vegetables and other nutritional foods to eat as a way of balancing their diet and enable them cope with the feeding requirements of antiretroviral therapy.

The inmates sung and danced as they walked towards the stadium where they held a football match between themselves geared towards creating Aids awareness among the youth.

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