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Condoms best for HIV prevention - former minister

    JOHANNESBURG
    Condoms are the only proven way of preventing the spread of HIV infection among Mozambique's sexually active population, former health minister Helder Martins has said. At the closing of a public debate on HIV/AIDS prevention strategies on Thursday, he stressed that the use of condoms should be massively increased. "Whether you like it or not, condom use is the only proven form of safe sex. Nobody is against abstention, but what happens when abstention fails? And it fails regularly all over the world," the Mozambican news agency, AIM, quoted Martins as saying. The former minister also dismissed claims made earlier in the debate that most of the country's people were now aware of HIV/AIDS.

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