He says, only one thing can stop the spread of AIDS in black America, an open mind.
Some 34 percent said the global spread of AIDS should be the top concern, and 23 percent said Africa should be the main focus of aid efforts.
"If you care about stopping the spread of AIDS, you ought to care about empowering women to make safe choices for themselves and their children, " he said.
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They told delegates at the conference that the failure to make more condoms available to people in the developing world is harming efforts to tackle the spread of Aids.
However, the ads developed by TBWA were praised as a success and credited with minimising the spread of AIDS within the UK. These scare tactics were imitated throughout the Western world.
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He denied the charges of inaction, pointing to efforts the city made to monitor the spread of AIDS, provide subsidies for AIDS research and outreach campaigns, distribute condoms and prevent discrimination against those with the disease.
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Distributing more condoms would not, on its own, stop the spread of AIDS. Lots of measures are needed: improving education, encouraging monogamy, delaying the age of first sexual encounter, helping young women to win a greater say over their sex lives and widening access to antiretroviral drugs that lessen sufferers' infectiousness.
Scientists think HIV probably crossed into humans as far back as the early 1900s, but it wasn't until air travel became common that the virus spread, and AIDS became a global epidemic in the 1980s.
We educate the public about the behaviors that lead to HIV and AIDS and ways to prevent the spread of these diseases.
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Last month, Malawi's President Bakili Muluzi directed the country's police to arrest prostitutes found loitering on street corners and their clients in an effort to slow down the spread of HIV and Aids.
But it is sheer ignorance that contributes most to the spread of HIV and AIDS. In a study of policemen in Khartoum state in 2005, only 1.9% of those interviewed knew that a condom could protect them against HIV.
Although education alone cannot eliminate HIV and AIDS, it can help limit the spread of the virus.
In 1987 some irresponsible unknown doctor from Bombay spread a rumor that Osho might have contracted AIDS and the tabloids of Bombay published this sensational rumor, so the young doctor got publicity which he was seeking.
Researchers claimed a breakthrough in preventing the spread of HIV , the virus that causes AIDS, when the results of a study using an experimental vaccine on 16, 000 volunteers in Thailand showed the risk of infection had been cut by 31%.
Lack of needle exchange programs has curbed efforts to combat the spread of the disease, says Annabel Kanabus, director of international AIDS charity AVERT.
He said the health system could not cope with the Aids crisis and Malawians should the scourge by discouraging the kind of behaviour that helps the spread of the disease.
"We know we have to do more to help developing nations, " said Clinton, who sees AIDS as a threat to global security, adding that he was particularly concerned about its spread in former Soviet republics.
Therapeutic vaccines are also being investigated, as well as those which could be given to prevent AIDS. Until such vaccines are widely available, prevention remains the only sure way to try to contain the spread of a disease of frightening proportions which is on course to claim millions of lives.
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