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From today’s MSNBC site msnbc.msn.com/id/17407726
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Researchers increasingly agree that curbing such behavior is key to slowing the spread of AIDS in Africa. In a July report, southern African AIDS experts and officials listed “reducing multiple and concurrent partnerships” as their first priority for preventing the spread of HIV in a region where nearly 15 million people are estimated to carry the virus – 38 percent of the world’s total.
But for many Batswana, as citizens of this landlocked desert country of 1.6 million call themselves, it is a strategy that has rarely been taught.
Saying “use the condom” has apparently been a spur to multiple-partner sex, with disasterous results."There has never been equal emphasis on ‘Don’t have many partners,’ " said Serara Selelo-Mogwe, a public health expert and retired nursing professor at the University of Botswana, who recalled stepping past broken bottles and used condoms as she arrived on campus each Monday morning. “If you just say, ‘Use the condom’ . . . we will never see the daylight of the virus leaving us.”