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Safe Porn?

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An adult film actor in South Africa, Tau Morena, is promising to make all his actors wear condoms in order to promote safe sex.  South Africa has one of the world’s highest HIV/AIDS cases. A research in 2008 estimated that 10.9% of all South Africans over 2 years old were living with HIV. Other studies report higher statistics. Activists and international groups have advocated for a more focused education to promote safe sex.

For a porn director to join the call emphasizes how much the problem is getting out of hand. It’s no secret that nicety and pornography tend not to go hand in hand. In the US, federal law requires all adult film actors to be tested for HIV. Such testing agencies do not even exist in South Africa. Condoms and HIV are not the best of friends and so it is encouraging to see the South African adult industry embrace the use of condoms.

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Belief in Male Circumcision in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Male circumcision is believed  to  reduce the risk of being infected with HIV/AIDS in several sub-Saharan African countries .

Gallup just released a survey conducted to assess the belief and the practice of male circumcision in this region.

The numbers:

Subsahara Africa poll on male circumcision
Subsahara Africa poll on male circumcision
Subsahara Africa poll on male circumcision

Bottom Line

Although improved levels of education about HIV/AIDS do not necessarily change behaviors, the likelihood of change without education is low. Therefore, investment in effective education programs about circumcision should be increased and designed in such a way that those with lower levels of education hear and understand the message: circumcision reduces the chance of being infected with HIV.

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