Showing posts with label Uganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uganda. Show all posts

Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Court jails nurse for infecting boy with HIV

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A Ugandan court has sentenced a nurse to three years in prison for negligence over the potential infection of a two-year-old boy with HIV.

BBC reports that Rosemary Namubiru, who is HIV-positive, was criminally negligent by using an intravenous needle, that she had accidentally pricked her finger with, on the child, the court ruled.