Explicit sex books 'help drop in Uganda's HIV rate'

The book How Kwezi Got Into Trouble has a picture on the cover of a girl sobbing into a tissue at a school desk.

So when I saw it, I thought Kwezi might have got into trouble for handing her homework in late, or perhaps she had been copying somebody else's exam paper.

Then I looked at the text on the back cover and got quite a shock. It read: "At her mother's funeral, Kwezi is raped by her late father's best friend.

"Kwezi has no-one to tell but her mother lying in the grave. Though she gets Aids, Kwezi is determined to let other pupils know how dangerous Aids is."

It is a surprising storyline for a book aimed at eight-to-10-year-olds. More...

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