Virginity Becomes a Commodity In Uganda's War Against AIDS
By Emily Wax
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, October 7, 2005; Page A01

KITATYA, Uganda -- Mousisi Anatolius moved from hut to hut, taking notes in a tattered ledger as he interviewed parents and their young daughters. He was searching for virgins.

"How are you faring? What is your status?" Anatolius, a community leader, gently asked Prossy Naluyombia. A haggard girl of 13, she was one of 11 children living in a dark, mud-floor room with soiled laundry stuffed in the corners. The rest