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Nepal-AIDS: Men told to exercise restraint to help curb AIDS in Nepal
Shusham Shrestha
Agence France-Presse - December 1, 2000

KATHMANDU, Dec 1 (AFP) - Nepal marked World AIDS Day on Friday by calling on men to exercise more willpower.

Health minister Ram Baran Yadav said if men acted with more self-restraint it would help curb the spread of the disease, which had so far killed 142 people in the kingdom.

Unsafe sex, prostitution, and the sharing of syringes were the main causes behind the spread of AIDS, the national centre for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and AIDS (NSTD/AIDSPC) said.

Sexually active people between the ages of 15 and 49 were most at risk, the centre said. The risk increased by between three and nine percent for those who had already contracted an STD, it added.

"Fifty nine precent of the 24,000 STD patients in Nepal are male," said Pulakit Chaudhari, a clinical officer at the centre.

He said that the government and media were resposnible for raising the awareness of AIDS and teaching men to use condoms when having sex.

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