KAMPALA Uganda—-Sweden has resumed financial aid to Uganda, less than six months after the Scandinavian country suspended its support following the enactment of a severe anti gay law.

The Swedish embassy in Kampala said Monday that Sweden would extend around $200 million in development support to Uganda over the next five years, to improve the country's health care, including sexual and reproductive health and strengthen the "respect of human rights."

The development is a huge relief for Uganda, which depends on aid to provide health care at nearly all state-run hospitals across the country. The move comes just a few weeks after Uganda's foreign ministry said that donors who withheld millions of aid over the antigay law had "misinterpreted" it.

"Sweden wants to help create better conditions in Uganda for sustainable economic growth and development. Sweden continues to support human rights and freedom from violence," Sweden's Minister for International Development Cooperation, Hillevi Engstrom, said.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in February signed into law the highly controversial anti gay bill, which imposes jail terms of up to life in prison for some homosexual acts, drawing the ire of international donors.