From the homosexual unscientific distortions already created in the US, AIDS became a heterosexual mayhem and assumed a grotesque stigma. Despite Kasensero having been an isolated unsanitary beach deep in a rural place, no where near the Trans African Highways, the experts deflected the ill prepared and equipped doctors and politicians to track drivers and prostitutes in sprawling filthy townships on the Trans African highway. Even among these semi-prostitutes and track drivers nobody bothered to look at the totality of their lifestyle. It is common knowledge that most truck drivers are drug addicts and alcoholics and work in stressful conditions and so are their prostitute friends. They all live on the fringe of society.
Prostitution is illegal in Uganda.
Women do not engage in prostitution in the sense of the word. They just offer themselves for survival such as getting accommodation, food and clothing. Thus with economic and social hardships in these years young girls, widows found themselves drifting to townships. In the townships they would work for food and a room to sleep in, in the numerous restaurants, small hotels and bars littering the Trans-Africa high way in the hope of earning some money from the truck drivers through sex. Most of these would become part time wives of these drivers who would bring them things from their long distance places like the East African Coast of Mombasa.