{"id":45,"date":"2005-05-03T11:58:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T16:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2005\/05\/03\/ugandan-miracle\/"},"modified":"2005-05-03T11:58:21","modified_gmt":"2005-05-03T16:58:21","slug":"ugandan-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2005\/05\/03\/ugandan-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan “Miracle”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Toronto’s Globe and Mail reports that the Ugandan “miracle” may not be so miraculous after all<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

But several recent studies suggest it wasn’t ABC that turned Uganda
\naround at all. Instead, they indicate that the infection rate declined
\nsharply for the simple reason that hundreds of thousands of
\nHIV-infected people died.<\/p>\n

“The Ugandan miracle is that a lot of people died and they’re not
\nthere [to count],” said James Rwanyarare, a Kampala physician and
\nopposition political figure who worked with some of the first Ugandans
\nto publicly disclose their HIV-positive status.\n <\/p>\n

Other new research suggests condoms, more than anything else, stopped
\nthe spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The research –in
\nparticular a study presented in Boston in February that followed 10,000
\nadults in the Rakai district for a decade — ignited a storm of
\ncontroversy here.<\/p>\n

…Yet researchers from Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University
\nfound that “the single greatest factor” in the decline in the number of
\nHIV-infected people in Rakai was the premature deaths of those who were
\ninfected earlier and subsequently died of AIDS. About 70 per cent more
\npeople died of AIDS in each year of that decade than the number who
\nwere newly infected.\n <\/p>\n

…The U.S. study also found that although people reported a growing
\nnumber of sexual partners, and declining abstinence over the decade,
\nthere was no corresponding increase in the number of new HIV infections.<\/p>\n

In fact the prevalence rate fell. Participants in the study reported
\nmore condom use, which the researchers believe offset their high-risk
\nsexual behaviour. But the researchers said the emphasis on abstinence
\nand fidelity did not appear to have had an impact.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If we’re basing our policy on AB and not C (which is arguably where the
\nUnited States would like to go [see the previous article]), what are we
\nin for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto’s Globe and Mail reports that the Ugandan “miracle” may not be so miraculous after all: But several recent studies suggest it wasn’t ABC that turned Uganda around at all. Instead, they indicate that the infection rate declined sharply for the simple reason that hundreds of thousands of HIV-infected people died. “The Ugandan miracle is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}