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Four in Five Swazi Men Refuse to Undertake AIDS Testing: Survey

by Sreeraman on May 31, 2008 at 12:34 PM AIDS/HIV News

Four out of five men in Swaziland, the nation with the world's highest rate of HIV, would refuse to undertake a test for the AIDS virus, official figures showed on Friday.

Four in Five Swazi Men Refuse to Undertake AIDS Testing: Survey

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A total 79.6 percent of those questioned in a survey said they would not be willing to take a test while only a minority (46 percent) said they were prepared to use condoms, the central statistics office said.

The same survey further revealed that 40 percent of Swazi men believed that spousal abuse could be justified under certain circumstances.

Close to 40 percent of adults in the landlocked southern African nation are living with HIV and AIDS, the highest infection rate anywhere in the world, according to UN figures.

In a report released last year, the Physicians for Human Rights organisation said that a cultural belief that women are inferior to men had helped spur the rapid spread of HIV in Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarchy.

The current monarch, King Mswati III, has 13 wives.

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