Lessons From Africa in AIDS Prevention

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Lessons From Africa in AIDS Prevention

Washington Post (12/16/96) P. A4
Okie, Susan

Abstract: The success of HIV prevention campaigns in several African countries could be duplicated in the United States, some public health workers say. The transmission of HIV has been reduced in those areas by increasing efforts to prevent and treat other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), like syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia. However, such efforts in the United States have been difficult due to a lack of cooperation between STD programs and HIV prevention campaigns. "Everyone knows about AIDS, which is relatively less likely for the population to encounter, and nobody knows about STDs," said Helene Gayle of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "There's something wrong in our messages that we did not link those." Gayle said that better STD treatment would "have a major impact for some parts of the HIV epidemic" in the United States. The 1996 federal budget included $583 million in HIV surveillance and prevention and $1.4 billion for AIDS research, compared to $105 million for prevention and $110 million for STD research.

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