HIV/AIDS
Abstinence programs fail to cut risk of HIV infection
Published in AIDS Weekly, August 20th, 2007
This also calls into question the continued use of public money to fund abstinence only programmes in the United States.
Abstinence only programmes encourage sexual abstinence as the exclusive means of preventing HIV infection, without promoting safer sex behaviours, but their effectiveness in high income settings remains unclear.
At present, thirty-three per cent of HIV prevention funds from the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2007-08-20)
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