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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Omulele",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. In fact, I was wondering about the issues that my brothers and sisters were speaking to with regard to this Bill. I think some of them are totally extraneous to what is clear in this Bill. I wish to start from the point that this Bill is actually timely. We want to create a central authority, which will be dealing with matters AIDS in this country. I say so because in this country you will notice that people have lost the fear that was in them and was usually associated with the scourge. People have started looking at the scourge of AIDS as a very ordinary thing. People are behaving in a way that is likely to only increase the scourge. We must set up an authority that will tell our people that as much as we have dealt with AIDS and made people who are suffering from it capable of living a normal life, we must address it as a disease that we need to eradicate; to eradicate it we need to change our behavior totally. It should not be looked at as an ordinary disease, but as a life-threatening disease. So, I think that in creating an authority, rather than having the council the way we have had it, we should have a national focal point, which will be dealing with this issue and at the same time provide direction. As much as we have devolved health matters to the counties, the national Government must be in the forefront in fighting this scourge. The national Government The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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