Panafrican News Agency - November 28, 2001
A press release said activities were planned for the central prison in Mpimba, Bujumbura as well as the prisons in Ngozi (north) and Gitega (centre).
The initiative falls within a scheme the ICRC was implementing in conjunction the Burundi's national AIDS control programme (NPAC), the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) and the national programme for tuberculosis control (NPTC).
The release quoted ICRC official, Dr Martin Schneider, as observing that the scheme was "the first of its kind to be carried out by the ICRC in one of the 80 countries in which it works."
It said monitors trained in collaboration with SWAA are chosen from among prisoners and penitentiary guards, as well health workers assigned to prisons.
It said prisoners were being urged to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS.
Burundi ranks among the 20 most affected countries in the world. According to UNAIDS, 360,000 persons out of a population of 6.5 million lived with HIV in Burundi in 1999.
On average, 25 000 die each, most of them aged between 15 and 49.
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