Having a common regional approach to the HIV and Aids pandemic is an important step for the East African Community, as the five member states get ready for closer integration. The increased trade and labour migration that comes with closer economic ties will invariably create situations where large numbers of foreign nationals travel or relocate freely in their territories.
As Kenya and Uganda assent to East African Community's Regional AIDS Law, the lack of an HIV criminalisation statute apparently holds back Tanzania and Burundi
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