title: Beyond slogans: lessons from Uganda's ABC experience.
abstract: Between the late 1980s and mid-1990s, at a time when HIV/AIDS was well on its way toward ravaging Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda achieved an extraordinary feat: It stopped the spread of HIV/AIDS in its tracks and saw the nation's rate of infection plummet. As word of the "Uganda miracle" spread, journalists, researchers, policymakers and advocates all descended to try to ascertain how it was accomplished.
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D002160:Cambodia; D017280:Condoms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003906:Developing Countries; D004293:Dominican Republic; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007563:Jamaica; D011057:Politics; D015995:Prevalence; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D012746:Sexual Abstinence; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012747:Sexual Partners; D013785:Thailand; D014454:Uganda / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States; D015024:Zambia