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    Senegal is set to launch a three-month national sexual health campaign to sensitise populations on the HIV/AIDS pandemic and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), the state-owned ‘Le Soleil’ reported Minister of Health Awa Marie Coll as announcing on Thursday. The campaign will use a one-truck caravan which, at each stop in each of Senegal’s 10 regions, will be transformed into a podium from which health specialists, NGOs, local authorities will address residents on ways to protect oneself from getting AIDS or other STDs. “AIDS concerns me...and you?”: That is the theme chosen for this year’s campaign which will cost the state US $50,300. The three-month programme is supported by USAID. Senegal reported HIV prevalence is 1.4 percent for some 9.5 million habitants. Five thousand people died of the disease in 2000, the daily reported.

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