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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So the state health ministry has recruited 13 daias to educate women about the cause and spread of AIDS during the female equivalent of the all-male Friday prayers.
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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Koop shocked his conservative supporters when he endorsed condoms and sex education to stop the spread of AIDS. He carried out a crusade to end smoking in the United States his goal had been to do so by 2000.
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.
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.
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.
Since just about everyone - and most especially President Bush - is keen to combat the spread of diseases like AIDS, packaging a global tax as a way greatly to increase the funds available for this purpose is as seductive as it is cynical.
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.
But in parts of the developing world, where Catholic agencies are at the forefront of health provision, the stricture against condoms condemns women to years of child-bearing, and encourages the spread of HIV, the precursor to AIDS. Some women are as strongly opposed to the church's ban on abortion as they are on its stance on contraception.
Rumors have abounded in Urumqi of recent syringe stabbers trying to spread AIDS and other diseases.
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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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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.
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.
Despite differences about the best approach for controlling the spread of HIV, there is agreement that there has not been nearly enough success in either treating or preventing AIDS. And the epidemic is not likely to reverse its course in the near future.
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