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AIDS In Africa - Liberia’s AIDS Rate Lower
September 6th, 2007
‘Aids In Africa’ Series, Part 2
Reliable statistics on HIV/AIDS have been hard to come by in Liberia, slowly recovering from years of conflict, but two recently released surveys indicate a much lower HIV/AIDS prevalence rate than was previously thought.
“This is a reliable survey, involving 7,000 households across the country, where individual blood samples were collected and tested for HIV, and this exercise is the first in 25 years,”…
The first post-war demographic and health survey, conducted by the LISGIS from December 2006 to July 2007 in nine of the country’s 15 counties, indicated an HIV prevalence rate of 1.5 percent of the country’s 3.2 million people.
The civil war made most rural areas inaccessible, but when it ended in 2003, UNAIDS put HIV infection at 5.9 percent, while a 2002 Liberian government study estimated 8.2 percent.
Read the rest of the Article at: allafrica.com/stories/200708270886.html
This is good news, on one hand, that the rate is substantially lower than expected; and without looking up the numbers, I’m quite sure 1.5% is lower than the African average.
On the other hand, as the article reveals if you keep reading it, those numbers can only be gleamed by people willing to be tested, so the actual rate is probably a bit higher; but it definitely appears much lower than the 5.9%.
Please watch The Age of AIDS online. Its a great and dramatic piece of work.
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Great article. CONGRATS on your milestone. I’m enjoying your blog!
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