Vaccine Advocates

In the year of 1988 the initial Clinical trial of the AIDS Vaccine started. 24,000 people from all the parts of the globe had volunteered for the trials. There was only one goal in the minds of these people – to fond an appropriate vaccination for AIDS.

After the end of the trials, these volunteers became the vaccination advocates. They frequently interacted with the media having a sole aim in mind of eradicating AIDS. The vaccination advocates emphasize the need of public supporting in developing a vaccination of AIDS.

Paul Wetaka is a well-known vaccine Advocate from Uganda. He was a soldier in army of Uganda. He was also a member of the President of Uganda protection unit. 10 years he volunteered for the first AIDS vaccine trial. At the initial stages, the trial was a big controversy. However today Uganda is preparing itself for a third AIDS Vaccine trial. The support form the public is overwhelming.

Vaccine Advocate Paul Wetaka is currently working with the Uganda Army’s medical service unit that is responsible for the care of the HIV\AIDS affected soldiers. The wing is now preparing to launch its own program to provide the affected soldiers with antiretroviral drug treatment.

Wetaka recalls that he first got involved in the AIDS vaccine in the year 1995 when he was approached by the Joint Clinical research center in Kampala. This is the center where Uganda’s first trail took place. He comments the he had traveled the length and the breadth of the nation, listening to the President of Uganda speaks about AIDS and how to take preventive measures against it.

Back then, Paul had been witness to several deaths among his commanders and friends due to the ’slim’ disease as they called it. He had been to the funerals of lot of his friends who had died of AIDS. He helped the orphans of his friends to pay their school fees and get the things of need.

The thing that kept worrying him was the trial test. However, when finally he took it, it turned out that he was a HIV negative.

Since then he has transformed from a trial volunteer to a Vaccination Advocate.

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