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HIV spread fuelled by promiscuity - experts

    JOHANNESBURG

    Leading AIDS experts have suggested that strengthened efforts in persuading people to have fewer sex partners could reduce global HIV infections, the BBC reported.

    Officials from the Global AIDS Fund, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the US Agency for International Development said little attempt had gone into tackling this issue in recent years.

    Research showed that initiatives to address the topic in countries like Uganda had paid off, with HIV acquisition rates dropping from 15 to 5 percent over the past decade.

    Similar campaigns in Ethiopia, Thailand, Cambodia and the Dominican Republic had delivered comparable results, the experts added.

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