An AIDS Prevention Strategy Involving Rural General and Dental Practitioners
Keywords:
Aids-prevention, Research, Health Education, Contraceptive Devices, Male.
Abstract
Primary health care personnel are ideally, situated to participate in AIDS prevention but are not effectively trained to do so. A survey is described in which GPs and dental practitioners were given literature on AIDS as well as condoms the distribution. After 6 months these doctors and dentists were evaluated and the overall results were very encouraging: a good response rate was achieved, most doctors used the information and found it useful and almost all would value continued education in this field. Larger scale intentions of this kind could be of great value in equipping a larger group of health care personnel in this field, especially medical benefit scheme personnel: a large avenue which already exists covering about 1,3 million beneficiaries.
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