caa a22 4500 397520395 CHVBK 20180308164630.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199506 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/heapol/10.2.171 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/heapol/10.2.171 Village-based AIDS prevention in a rural district in Uganda [Elektronische Daten] [DORIS SCHOPPER, SERGE DOUSSANTOUSSE, NATAL AYIGA, GEORGES EZATIRALE, WILLIAM JEAN IDRO, JACQUES HOMSY] Objective To design, implement and evaluate a village-based AIDS prevention programme in a rural district in north-western Uganda. A baseline KAP survey of the general population was earned out to design a district-wide information campaign and condom promotion programme. Eighteen months later the impact achieved was measured through a second KAP survey, using the same methodology Methods Anonymous structured interviews were conducted in March 1991 and October 1992 with 1486 and 1744 randomly selected individuals age 15-49, respectively. Results At 18 months, 60% of respondents had participated in an information session in the past year (47% women, 71% men) and 42% had received a pamphlet about AIDS (26% women, 58% men). Knowledge about AIDS, high initially (94%), reached 98%. More respondents knew that the incubation period is longer than one year (from 29% to 40%), and were willing to take care of a PWA (from 60% to 77%). Knowledge about condoms increased from 26 to 63% in women and 57 to 91% in men. Ever use of condoms among persons having engaged in casual sex in the past year increased from 6 to 33% in women, and 27 to 48% in men. Fifty per cent of condom users criticized lack of regular access to condoms. Conclusions This is the first documented example of the impact a village-based AIDS prevention programme can achieve in a rural African community. Critical areas to be improved were identified, such as: women must be given better access to information, more attention must be paid to explain the asymptomatic state of HIV infection in appropriate terms, and condom social marketing must be developed. © 1995 Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence SCHOPPER DORIS Medecins Sans Frontieres, Geneva, Switzerland aut DOUSSANTOUSSE SERGE Medecins Sans Frontieres, Kampala, Uganda aut AYIGA NATAL Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda aut EZATIRALE GEORGES Department of Philosophy, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda aut IDRO WILLIAM JEAN Medecins Sans Frontieres, Kampala, Uganda aut HOMSY JACQUES Medecins Sans Frontieres, Kampala, Uganda aut Health Policy and Planning Oxford University Press 10/2(1995-06), 171-180 0268-1080 10:2<171 1995 10 heapol https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/10.2.171 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/10.2.171 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- SCHOPPER DORIS Medecins Sans Frontieres, Geneva, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- DOUSSANTOUSSE SERGE Medecins Sans Frontieres, Kampala, Uganda aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- AYIGA NATAL Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- EZATIRALE GEORGES Department of Philosophy, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- IDRO WILLIAM JEAN Medecins Sans Frontieres, Kampala, Uganda aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- HOMSY JACQUES Medecins Sans Frontieres, Kampala, Uganda aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Policy and Planning Oxford University Press 10/2(1995-06), 171-180 0268-1080 10:2<171 1995 10 heapol Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford