AIDS prevention methods passed to Sudan

Uganda and Sudan are exchanging ideas on how best to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Sudanese health minister Ahmed Bilal Osman met earlier this week with his Ugandan counterpart, Jim Muhwezi, in Uganda's capital, Kampala, and said he hoped to adopt the same AIDS prevention methods used to reduce HIV prevalence in Uganda. A local newspaper, New Vision, quoted Osman as saying: "There is a problem of condom use among our citizens, and that is what we have come to learn from you, so that we can apply it in our country [Sudan]." Uganda has won international acclaim for reducing its HIV prevalence rate from 30 percent to 6 percent, using the 'Abstain, Be faithful and Condomise' method, also known as the 'ABC' approach.