[Campaign strategy against AIDS in Africa: Congolese procedures and experience].
Compared with US and European countries, AIDS prevention in Africa has two specificities: there are no peculiar risk groups and the HIV is transmitted mainly through heterosexual relations. In Congo, the prevention strategy aims at the followings: information and in-service training for health workers; medical and psychological care for contaminated persons; and information to the general public. As AIDS spreads much more in urban areas (3.8%) than in rural areas (less than 1%), the first decision has been to organise a systematic screening of blood donors in Brazzaville, together with a face-to-face counselling for everyone and particularly to HIV positives. The public information is based on public sessions with half-an-hour information and a two-hour discussion. As condoms are not yet psychologically and economically accessible to the African people, the prevention campaigns have to give a panel of possible solutions, including abstinence, decrease in the number of partners, fidelity,.... The approaches are multimedia including theater, songs, posters, TV and radio.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003223:Congo; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000453:epidemiology; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006281:Health Occupations / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media
Strategie de lutte contre le SIDA en Afrique: démarche et expériencecongolaises.