Court orders TASO to pay Shs190m after wrong HIV diagnosis
The High Court in Jinja has ordered The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) to pay UGX 190 million (about $53,000) in damages to John Wataka, after finding that he was wrongly diagnosed as HIV-positive and kept on antiretroviral therapy (ARVs) for seven years despite being HIV-negative. According to court records, Wataka was tested and told he…