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October 25, 2007
Condom Awareness High in India
About 95 percent of Indian males believe that condoms can be effective against the spread of diseases, and 70 percent of Indian women know where to get condoms, according to a new UN report. (DNAindia.com, 10/25)
The report follows three years of awareness campaigns sponsored by UNAIDS and the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) in six of India’s high-prevalence districts: Aizwal, Bellary, Guntur, Kanpur, Udaipur and Kishanganj.
The results showed that the percentage of men who believed that condoms could prevent disease was only around 65 percent before the campaigns. Also, during the three years, the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases across the districts decreased.
