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    "id": 476972,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anami",
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        "legal_name": "Lisamula Silverse Anami",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for that intervention. I hope the time lost will be granted to me. But I wanted to emphasize the point that we have many orphaned children who have come about because of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This Bill needs to accommodate those children. They are many in number. We need to have the statistics of those children. We have had instances – and I can tell you for sure that, in my constituency – and I know hon. Members here will bear me witness--- When you consider the situation of orphaned children, they are up to 30 to 40 per cent in each classroom. They do not have the necessary facilities even to give them education. Now, if that is at the education level, you wonder how they are surviving back in their families. The situation of poverty has been aggravated by the impact of HIV/AIDS. We need an HIV/AIDS control and prevention authority to collect those statistics so that we can know the ultimate impact of what we are dealing with. Sometimes, we indulge in a lot of casual treatment of issues. Like when we talk about mainstreaming of matters concerning HIV/AIDS in public institutions, every now and again, we keep passing the buck and saying: “It is not me! It is so and so!” For me, I want to suggest that both the National Government and county governments should take HIV/AIDS as a serious phenomenon that we must deal with if we want to guarantee ourselves of productivity and sustainable development. There has been very many recommendations. But they have been shelved. There have been very many reports. But they have also been shelved. We need to look back at what is it that has been done before, so that we can build on it."
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