{"id":35,"date":"2005-02-24T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2005\/02\/24\/new-study-ugandas-hiv-incidence-d"},"modified":"2005-02-24T12:32:23","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T17:32:23","slug":"new-study-ugandas-hiv-incidence-drops-due-to-condoms-not-abstinence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2005\/02\/24\/new-study-ugandas-hiv-incidence-drops-due-to-condoms-not-abstinence\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study: Uganda’s HIV incidence drops due to condoms, not abstinence or faithfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

In the Rakai district … researchers found that abstinence and
\nfidelity have actually been declining, but the expected rise in HIV infections
\nstemming from such behavior has not occurred.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

“Condom use may be offsetting other high-risk behaviors,” said Maria
\nWawer, a professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health,
\nwho presented the study at a session of the 12th Annual Retrovirus Conference
\nin Boston.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

Ominously, Uganda is now in the midst of an acute condom shortage,
\naccording Wawer, who conducts research in the Rakai district, one of the
\nearliest locations of the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Researchers from John Hopkins, Columbia and Ugandan institutions
\nreturned to the very studied southern Rakai district on Lake Victoria,
\nfollowing the same cohort of approximately 10,000 study participants
\nover a 10 year period, collecting self reported behaviors and biologic
\nsamples of urine and blood.  \n<\/p>\n

The report also has implications for longstanding family planning
\nprograms.  There is an interesting carry-over from the pre-HIV era
\nof continued hormonal contraceptive methods.  Zimbabwe for
\ninstance began a family planning effort in 1967 and the continued use
\nof the pill and a low condom use rate today is due in part to those
\nearly programming decisions.  In the era of HIV, late-coming
\nnational family planning programs are benefiting from a surge in
\nbarrier methods promotion.  Uganda’s contraceptive prevalence data
\nbear this up: less than 3% of married women 15-49 years old used any
\nmodern contraceptive method in 1988.  By 2001, that proportion had
\nrisen to 18.2%.  The dual benefits are plain to see; although
\nUganda’s total fertility remains very high, it has fallen from 7.4 to
\n6.9 children per woman and HIV incidence rate has dropped to under 10%
\nper year from over 30% 15 years ago.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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