HIV/AIDS Prevention Working in India According to Study
HIV/AIDS Prevention Working in India According to Study Mar 30, 2006 - Linknet Health News - A study just released by a University of Toronto team and published in the British medical journal the Lancet has found some encouraging trends concerning the spread of HIV/AIDS in India.== Buy Durex Condoms Online == More than 5 million people are already infected with the HIV/AIDS virus in India. But predictions that this number would explode as they have in South Africa have proven to be unfounded, according to the study of pregnant women aged 15 to 24 in India's four southern provinces. This group is normally considered an indicator of trends within the general population. The study found that HIV infection within this group fell from 1.7% to 1.1% -- a decline of about 35 percent -- between 2000 and 2004. They also pointed out that a similar trend has been noticed in parts of Africa. The conclusion they have drawn is that education and prevention techniques such as more widespread use of condoms has had a positive impact on the spread of the disease. The group was quick to point out that the conclusions are based on data collected in the south of India, and not in the north where population is more dense and there are generally more poor. Data collected on northern women in the target age group did not indicate a similar decline in the infection rate, but the problem is much more severe in the south. The infection rate in the south is about five times what it is in the north. The researchers attributed much of the decline to the use of condoms by sex trade workers: "about 70-80 percent of female sex workers in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu reported condom use with their last client." Typically sex trade workers infect their clients who then pass the infection on to their wives. But the study concluded that there has likely been a change in the use of sex workers. Male clients are more often using a condom for protection; or possibly not using sex workers as often. See Condoms play a big part in Thailand fight against HIV/AIDS
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