HIV Sero-prevalence among Premarital couples in Bahir Dar Town. HIV Sero-Prevalence, Sexual behaviror and practice of preventive behavior among premarital couples in Bahir Dar Town

Social barriers to changing sexual behaviour are often complex and little understood, and current ways of promoting safe behaviour are not effective. Even in the UK, with universal access to sophisticated health care and education, rates of sexually transmitted disease are alarmingly high among young people and rates of HIV infection continue to rise БЂ“ particularly among vulnerable groups. If highly populated nations such as India, China and Nigeria БЂ“ which until now have had relatively low prevalence rates БЂ“ do not mount effective HIV prevention measures, the global toll of HIV infections will be even more enormous. Stigma and positive leadership A unique feature of HIV is the overwhelming nature of the stigma. No other infectious disease has been so demonised. Stigma and denial are the greatest barriers to HIV prevention. On World Aids Day in 1995, Nelson Mandela called on all South Africans to "speak out against the stigma, blame, shame and denial that has thus far been associated with this epidemic" ...»