After spotting this survey on iAfrica.com on National HIV/Aids survey carried out in South Africa, we thought you might be interested in the findings, as we had pretty mixed emotions…
The survey found that in SA, the percentage of people who believed faithfulness was a reasonable deterrent against HIV rose from 26 – 39 %.
Great! – The message is finally getting across, we hear many of you sighing, however, while progress isstill being made, what about the other 60% who did not put that down on the survey – this is a bit worrying.
What is also worrying is the fact that the use of condoms was hardly mentioned in a survey of HIV at all as a HIV/AIDS prevention.
Now we don’t want to put a downer on things, we feel that purely a small increase in the number of people suggesting that being faithful will prevent you from HIV is just not enough in a country that sees more deaths to HIV than anyone in the world.
Have a read of the short article and let us know what you think below…
Faithfulness Prevents HIV
Most people think their faithfulness could protect them against HIV, a survey has found, marking a triumph in safe sex campaigns in South Africa.
“The survey showed that faithfulness had gone up as a way to prevent HIV,” said Dr Saul Johnson, managing director for Health and Development Africa, at a media briefing in Johannesburg on Monday.
The percentage of respondents who believed faithfulness was a way to prevent HIV had increased from 26 percent in 2006 to 39.1 percent in 2009.
The popularity of safe sex using a condom was not mentioned.
The Second National HIV/Aids 2009 survey was conducted in all nine provinces between June and August last year.
A total of 9728 people aged between 16 and 55 took part in the survey, which involved completing in-depth, structured questionnaires in face-to-face interviews.
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So what did you think of the findings, given what the survey said should this be seen as a triumph for the safe sex campaigns? Or should this highlight the need for much more to be done?
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I believe that it is imperative for us to consider the out of 9728 people who are a majority and did not consider faithfulness as a safeguard measure against HIV/AIDS.
I know that we would want to seem very moral and its evident that the report didnt consider the views of those who either use condom or abstain from sex totally!
Picture this, I choose to remain faithful with my partner yet, we all have a history of sex behind us! What if my being faithful is not something that my partner also exercises and while I am busy being faithful, she messes up and ends up messing my health.
It is never about making the struggle look like a war because that is a stigma but whether we like it or not, we have to consider the fact that condoms do play a great part in preventing ourselves from STIs, STDs and HIV/AIDS.
It should not be taken lightly the efforts that many organisations and people have gone to ensure that we condomise sex because, we are young and will tend to find ourselves in wanting/ tempting situations and we should condomise because at the end of the day, it is not about statistics but also about our health and safety! Condomize!
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