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New Vision (Kampala) - November 18, 2003
Policy-makers should "open an educative dialogue with elders in order to stamp out practices that spread AIDS," Patrick Orege, the director of Kenya's National AIDS Control Council, said at a Commonwealth workshop on men's role in stopping the spread of HIV.
"Men's role in the society as initiators of sex is putting them at a greater risk of transmitting HIV," Orege said.
He called for a review of laws that enshrine "matrimonial and conjugal rights" in order to dispel the popular notion that "once married, a woman should not refuse to have sex with her husband."
In an AIDS conference held in Nairobi last September, health experts described a typical African male as almost "a walking HIV risk for being ignorant or scornful of safe sex, highly promiscuous and often forcing his wife or girlfriend into having intercourse."
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