"Program in Africa Curbs Spread of AIDS"

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"Program in Africa Curbs Spread of AIDS"

Baltimore Sun (12/16/92), P. 8A

Abstract: Health-care workers in Rwanda are controlling the heterosexual spread of HIV by targeting young women with education and testing programs. The effort could serve as a model for U.S. inner cities. Rwanda has one of the world's highest rates of AIDS. According to researchers from the University of California--San Francisco, nine out of ten deaths are caused by AIDS, and almost one third of urban adults are HIV-positive. In the study published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, the researchers examined 1,458 women ages 20 to 40 who enrolled in a prevention program in 1988 in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. The program offered confidential HIV testing, viewing of a 35-minute educational video, and group discussions afterward. All of the subjects received regular physician examinations, condoms and spermicides, and invitations for male partners to be tested and counseled. As a result, condom use rose from 7 percent to 22 percent in one year among all of the women's partners.

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