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From:	Adeyemo Gabriel [ profile ]
Subject:	Ethiopia: Five-year plan to halve new HIV infections
Sent:	Mar 22nd, 2011 - 14:57:58

	Source:* IRIN News* http://allafrica.com/stories/201103101041.html Fellow Advocates, Ethiopia's government has come up with an ambitious plan to halve new HIV infections, quadruple its annual condom distribution and put 85 percent of people who need life-prolonging HIV medication on treatment within five years... According to UNAIDS, Ethiopia has already managed to bring down new HIV infections by over 25 percent since 2001. The country's HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office (HAPCO) says prevalence among young people is dropping. While the country's progress is impressive, analysts say there is still much to be done. A recently released survey by research group Population Council and the UN Population Fund, UNFPA, found that stigma and ignorance were still common among young people... The country's HIV plan aims to be comprehensive, but glaringly absent from its HIV strategies is any programming specifically for men who have sex with men (MSM), who generally fall into "most at-risk" populations. Click on the above link to read further -- Many Thanks Yours' in Prevention Science Adeyemo Damilare Gabriel Regional Focal Point - West Africa Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AID (GYCA) +234-80-6798-7317 \| gabriel (at) gyca.org www.gyca.org \| www.tigweb.org GYCA is a youth-led global network of more than 4,500 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 150 countries world-wide. GYCA's mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers.

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