Date:15:30-17:30, May 27 (Tue.)，2008
Venue:Seminor Room of 3th Floor, ASAFAS New Building, Kawabata (Riverside St.), Kyoto Univ.
Speaker: Edward K. Kirumira(Dean of Faculty of Social Scienses, Makerere University, UGANDA)
Title: "Can Enhancing Local Behaviour Practices Significantly Contribute to HIV and AIDS Prevention? －Lessons From Uganda"
Recently, attention has been drawn to the reversal of the prevention success in Uganda, where there are some indications that HIV prevalence has increased (UNAIDS, 2006). This has been variously attributed to temporary shortages of condoms, or the expansion of abstinence-until-marriage programmes conducted by evangelical churches that may promote unrealistic standards of sexual behaviour (Bass, 2005; The Economist, 2006). However, the stagnant and worsening trends in Uganda date from about 2000, significantly before either the condom shortages or the proliferation of abstinence-only programmes (Kirumira, 2008). Another possibility is that these negative HIV trends are due, at least in part, to the phasing out of the 'Zero Grazing', community-involving, and other partner reduction/fidelity-focused campaigns of the late 1980s (Epstein, 2007). The presentation argues for re-visioning local behavior practices in HIV and AIDS prevention within the broader context of multi-sectoral approach to national response programmes.
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