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Tackling Men or Women?

Posted by rtatoud on 30 Aug 2008 at 12:17 GMT

The researchers concluded that “efforts to promote abstinence, to reduce the number of sexual partners, and to promote mutual monogamy should be coupled with methods which empower women to better control their exposure risk” and recommend “increased efforts to educate and empower women with respect to condom use” amongst other relevant strategies.

This is a rather surprising, but conventional, recommendation when it is clear that it is the men who are spreading the epidemics, not the women. Shouldn't the increased efforts be invested in educating men and empowering them to use condoms?

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