{"id":97,"date":"2006-03-17T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T20:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2006\/03\/17\/ugandan-hiv-prevalence-at-64-of-1"},"modified":"2006-11-29T22:05:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T03:05:24","slug":"ugandan-hiv-prevalence-at-64-of-15-49-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2006\/03\/17\/ugandan-hiv-prevalence-at-64-of-15-49-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan HIV prevalence at 6.4% of 15-49 year olds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a178\"><\/a>  As published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaisernetwork.org\/daily_reports\/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=36021\">KaiserNetwork<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px\">Uganda&#8217;s HIV prevalence has decreased from 6.5% to 6.4%, according to a national AIDS indicator survey, Uganda&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/D\/8\/13\/487115\">New Vision<\/a> reports. The survey &#8212; which was presented on Monday by Wilford Lordson Kirungi, medical epidemiologist for the country&#8217;s AIDS Control Program &#8212; was conducted between 2004 and 2005 and involved 10,437 households chosen at random. The survey finds that HIV prevalence fell in the country, and awareness of modes of transmission increased. &#8220;Rejection of misconceptions related to HIV is widespread,&#8221; the survey says, adding that &#8220;74% of women and 84% of men know that a healthy-looking person may be HIV-positive, and more than four in five know that HIV cannot be transmitted by witchcraft or by sharing food with someone who has AIDS.&#8221; Kirungi said women had the highest HIV prevalence, with a 7.5% rate among girls and women ages 15 to 49. According to the survey, boys and men ages 15 to 49 had an HIV prevalence of 6.4%, while children under age five had a prevalence of 0.7%. &#8220;We also found out that circumcised men are less likely to be HIV-infected, with 3.7% versus 5.5%,&#8221; Kirungi said, adding, &#8220;This was true for most categories of age groups, ethnicity, region and urban-rural residence&#8221; (New Vision, 3\/14). Kirungi also said that men who had not had sexual relations in the past year had an HIV prevalence of 5.0%, while those who had engaged in sexual relations with more than three partners in the past year had an HIV prevalence of 9.0%. According to Xinhua News Agency, Uganda&#8217;s success in controlling HIV\/AIDS in recent years can be attributed to government-sponsored national guidelines (Xinhua News Agency, 3\/14).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As published on the KaiserNetwork: Uganda&#8217;s HIV prevalence has decreased from 6.5% to 6.4%, according to a national AIDS indicator survey, Uganda&#8217;s New Vision reports. The survey &#8212; which was presented on Monday by Wilford Lordson Kirungi, medical epidemiologist for the country&#8217;s AIDS Control Program &#8212; was conducted between 2004 and 2005 and involved 10,437 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epidemiology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}