'No sex' month considered in Kenya
19/07/2010
Authorities in Kenya are looking into holding a 'no sex' month in a bid to stop the spread of the AID and HIV viruses, it has been reported.
According to All Africa, a fall in new infections in Kenya has led the nation to come up with innovative ways of ensuring this drop continues.
The method also has the benefit of not being too costly, reported the source, and was first put forward as an idea by AIDs researchers professor Alan Whiteside from the University of Kwazulu-Natalin South Africa and Dr Justin Parkhurst of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The source said that as well as Kenya, a similar no sex month is being considered in Swaziland.
More than two-thirds of those living with AIDs or HIV live within the sub-Saharan region of Africa and a recent study found that more than 11 per cent of the entire population of Mozambique are suffering from the viruses.
Written by John Curtis.
