[HIV infection prophylaxis in Uganda].
Uganda is one of the few countries where rates of HIV infection decreased, from about 18 percent in the early 1990s to about five percent in 2001. Although at the end of 2005, UNAIDS estimated that 6.7 percent of adults were HIV-infected, in recent years the number of infections has started to rise again. Uganda receives funds from the Unites States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which promotes the ABC approach focusing on sexual abstinence. Many experts argue that by emphasizing abstinence over condom use, the approach leaves women at risk of infection, because currently in Uganda marital sex continues to pose a particular risk for women.
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Zakład Medycyny Rodzinnej i Pielegniarstwa Srodowiskowego Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Białymstoku. dszadkowska@umwb.edu.pl
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