Aids plan 'will cut infections'
Sowetan (South Africa), December 2, 2011 / Luyolo Mkentane
Experts hail campaign as 'more focused and strategic'
Government's new ambitious plan to fight HIV-Aids - which aims to halve infections by 2016 - has been hailed by experts as a focused and attainable strategy that can ultimately turn the tide of the pandemic in South Africa.
Launching the five-year National Strategic Plan before a 5000 crowd at KwaZakhele's Wolfson Stadium in Port Elizabeth yesterday, Zuma said government would drive a campaign to prevent new infections and make treatment more accessible.
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Condoms:
When used consistently and correctly, male and female condoms are highly effective in
preventing sexual transmission of HIV. In heterosexual relationships where one
partner is HIV-positive and the other is HIV-negative, when condoms were consistently used, HIV- negative partners were 80% less likely to become infected than persons in similar relationships in which condoms were not used. For this reason, the United States has long been a leading provider of condoms for HIV prevention in the developing world, and over the next two years will distribute more than 1 billion condoms.
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