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Sexual behaviour campaigns reaping rewards

    JOHANNESBURG

    More young Africans are delaying their sexual debut, taking fewer sex partners and using more condoms, according to UNAIDS executive director Peter Piot.

    Piot told the African Union HIV/AIDS summit in Abuja, Nigeria, this was an indication that youth anti-AIDS campaigns were finally hitting home.

    "We are seeing some serious behaviour change," he noted.

    Piot attributed the progress to far higher foreign donations - mostly from the US and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria - improved grassroots projects and a new openness about the pandemic.

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