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Zimbabwe sees huge fall in HIV rate

By Kate Kelland | China Daily | Updated: 2011-02-10 07:51

Zimbabwe sees huge fall in HIV rate

LONDON - Fear of infection and mass social change have driven a huge decline in HIV rates in Zimbabwe, offering important lessons on how to fight the AIDS epidemic in the rest of Africa, scientists said on Tuesday.

In a study in the journal PLoS Medicine, British researchers said Zimbabwe's epidemic was one of the biggest in the world until the rate of people infected with HIV almost halved, from 29 percent of the population in 1997 to 16 percent in 2007.

Their findings show that Zimbabweans have primarily been motivated to change their sexual behavior because of increased awareness about AIDS deaths which heightened their fears of catching the HIV that causes it.

Zimbabwe sees huge fall in HIV rate

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