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Aids cuts, delays hit Uganda’s poor health sector

By Rodney Muhumuza

Published February 28, 2014 12:38pm ET

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Aids cuts, delays hit Uganda’s poor health sector — A newly-diagnosed HIV positive woman, who arrived at the hospital with symptoms of tuberculosis (TB), receives treatment at the Mildmay Uganda clinic, which receives funding from the US government through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in Kampala, Uganda Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Uganda's government has been hit with substantial aid cuts after the president enacted a severe anti-gay measure over which some Western governments had warned of consequences, and at least three European countries are withdrawing millions in direct support to Uganda's government, which depends on donors for about 20 percent of its budget. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie) | Rebecca Vassie

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The health project in Uganda for which the World Bank is delaying a loan does not face an immediate shortage of money, an official said Friday, allaying concerns that work to improve maternal and child health services could stall because of the country’s new anti-gay law.

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