‘Adults don’t want to use condoms’

THE elderly tend to believe that HIV is a disease for young people and this tends to make them overlook or ignore prevention methods such as using condoms.

Some even view condoms as being necessary to prevent pregnancies and no longer relevant to them as they would have passed child bearing age.

This was revealed by Mpilo Hospital Centre of Excellence medical director Nkazimulo Tshuma, a medical practitioner in the field of HIV management when she presented on the topic: Ageing with HIV during a National Aids Council (NAC) media engagement seminar in Esigodini, Matabeleland South, on Tuesday.

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