‘Turn to cultural practices for combating HIV’

Cultural practices can be a good source of combating the spread of HIV, an HIV/Aids researcher and author has said.

In his book HIV and Behavioural Change, Clarence Lossli says certain aspects of cultural practices can facilitate the spread of HIV while at the same time culture can be a resource which could strengthen the fight against the pandemic.

“Community-based leaders need to be more involved in the development of strategies to enable sexual attitudes to be modified,” said Lossli.

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