Panafrican News Agency - December 18, 2001
The finding of the survey, issued in Bamako Monday, also shows a high proportion of AIDS sufferers among mobile vendors (6.8 percent), public transport passenger touts (5.5 percent), truck drivers (3.5 percent) compared to the total national HIV-positive rate which is estimated at 1.7 percent.
It reveals that Malian prostitutes have an average of 4.1 partners per day and that 95.5 percent of them said they require their occasional or regular partners to use preservatives while 30 percent said their customers ignore condom use.
The survey on HIV/AIDS further discloses that prostitutes are more willing to admit their HIV-prevalence since 40 percent of them have already undergone the test as compared to 13 percent of drivers, 8 percent of touts and 5.3 percent of mobile vendors.
Malians are generally very knowledgeable about the AIDS pandemic, the survey further states, adding that 93.3 percent of women and 98 percent of men are aware of its existence.
With a prevalence rate of 1.7 percent, Mali has 130,000 HIV- positive patients, 2 percent of the figure being women while 1.3 percent are men, according to the epidemiological study, which warns that nearly 500,000 persons could be infected in the country by 2010.
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