A recent analysis of the AIDS epidemic in Uganda has confirmed that increased condom use in relation to the advanced age of sexual debut and reducing sexual partners is an important factor in reducing HIV prevalence in 1990 (Singh S et al.) Thailand efforts to stigmatize condoms and its targeted condom promotion for sex workers and their customers to significantly reduce HIV infections in these populations and helped to reduce the spread of the general population. Condoms have helped reduce rates of HIV infection, where AIDS has already taken root, reducing the further spread of HIV in settings where the epidemic concentrated in specific populations. Condoms are also encouraged sexual behavior in general. Moreover, the promotion of condoms in Brazil in the early and aggressive groups in the general population and vulnerable has successfully contributed to the surveillance of the epidemic. A similar policy in Cambodia has helped stabilize national prevalence, while sharp decline in HIV prevalence among sex workers.
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