AIDS, trade top agenda of Ugandan leader's visit to Zimbabwe

HARARE, Oct 3 (AFP) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is to pay a three-day visit to Zimbabwe this week to discuss a range of issues from trade to AIDS, reports here said Sunday.
Museveni is to arrive in Harare early Monday for the start of the visit, his first since the end of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) when the two countries were supporting opposite sides.
During that conflict, which began in August 1998 and ended two years ago, Uganda sided with Rwanda in backing rebels fighting to topple the government of the late DRC president, Laurent Kabila.
Zimbabwe deployed thousands of troops to prop up Kabila's government.
The private Standard newspaper reported Sunday that the east African leader would be leading a business delegation to look at prospects for cooperation in various fields, including cattle-ranching.
Museveni would also hold "wide-ranging talks" with President Robert Mugabe, and the Ugandan delegation is to share knowledge on dealing with the HIV pandemic, the paper said.
Around one in every four Zimbabwean adults is infected with HIV, and at least 2,000 people are estimated to die each week from AIDS.