Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has accepted an award for his nation's successful campaign against HIV/AIDS.

After receiving the award at the Commonwealth summit in Coolum, Australia, Mr. Museveni declared one reason that the spread of the disease had been slowed in his country is that it has no homosexuals.

He said HIV/AIDS is transmitted through heterosexual sex, careless blood transfusions and tribal customs such as circumcision in which the same knife is used for multiple people.

Mr. Museveni has led an aggressive prevention campaign against HIV/AIDS since 1986 that has been credited with slashing the infection rate among adults in Uganda from 28 to less than 10 percent.

A Commonwealth report released Sunday shows that member nations represent one-third of the world's population but have 60 percent of the world's HIV/AIDS cases.

Some information for this report provided by Reuters and AP.

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