Sunday, July 18, 2010

HIV cut in Africa by Paying Teenagers

HIV cut in Africa by Paying Teenagers
Payment of adolescents in small amounts for Africa is still free of sexually transmitted infections can help to reduce the incidence of HIV, according to research issued on Monday.
Cut 2399 study of adolescents in rural Tanzania, who were paid 20 dollars every four months if the test negative for a series of infectious diseases through the 1 / 4.
The second study that prompted the 3796 girls Malawi 4 dollars to 10 dollars a month if they remain in school – rather than leakage of reasons, including pregnancy – pieces of HIV by 60 per cent over the 18 months to 1.2 per cent, compared with 3 per cent in those that do not analysis paid.The, and new applications of the so-called conditional cash transfer had already been used to change human behavior in accordance with the various social policies and an indication of possible new approaches to prevent the spread of HIV.
They were released at the International Conference semi-annual AIDS Society opened in Vienna in light of growing concern that funding from governments is declining, threatening the success in the treatment of millions of people infected with HIV in the developing world.
That sparked calls for better use of existing funds, with Bill Gates, the philanthropist, saying better management could reduce the cost of treatment and prevention of HIV.
Michel Kazatchkine, head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which channels donor funds in all parts of the world, and that would require at least $ 17bn in the next three years to maintain the objectives to eradicate deaths from malaria and save millions of people in need to the treatment of HIV and tens of millions of infection with prevention programs.

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