Uganda says it is making gains in reducing HIV/Aids infections.
The country’s health ministry says new infection rates have nearly halved over the past five years – from 163-thousand in 2011 to 83-thousand in 2015.
Survey and other data suggest that a decline in multi-partner sexual behavior is the behavioral change most likely associated with HIV decline.
It appears that behavior change programs, particularly involving extensive promotion of “zero grazing” (faithfulness and partner reduction), largely developed by the Ugandan government and local NGOs including faith-based, women’s, people-living-with-AIDS and other community-based groups, contributed to the early declines in casual/multiple sexual partnerships and HIV incidence and, along with other factors including condom use, to the subsequent sharp decline in HIV prevalence.
CCTV’s Isabel Nakirya tells us more.
