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Mail & Guardian Online - May 21, 2008
Tackling low condom use: In Swaziland the mystery of why people refuse to use condoms is slowly being unravelled. Aids activist and health motivator Hannie Dlamini and the National Emergency Council on HIV/Aids (Nercha) hope to get to the bottom of men's attitudes to sexual health.
Swaziland's first Demographic Health Survey, in 2007, found that 26% of sexually active Swazis were infected with HIV. Although almost 99% of survey participants said they knew about the disease, nearly half admitted having multiple sex partners and having sex without condoms.
Swazi men are eager to embrace anti-condom myths as a reason to reject what they consider a foreign and unnatural intrusion into their sex lives. Extramarital affairs were also a topic of discussion. Many men said sleeping with one woman all the time caused a loss of interest in sex.
Nercha, the ministry of health and social welfare and Aids NGOs will analyse the findings for possible ways to bring about behavioural change.
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