Truck Spreads AIDS Prevention Messages along Mali's Main Roads
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Population Services International's Mali program has used an uncon-
ventional method to reach large groups of migrant populations at risk
for HIV/AIDS - a 20-ton truck decorated with the signs, logos and
slogans promoting safe sexual behavior. PSI/Mali's interventions com-
plement the Ministry of Health's efforts to reduce the HIV/AIDS in-
fection rate along the migratory axis by targeting bus and truck
drivers, their apprentices, roadside vendors, commercial sex workers
and youth aged 15-24.
The truck has made three tours, spreading HIV/AIDS prevention infor-
mation to an estimated 16,000 people along the migratory axis of
Mali.
For more information, visit http://www.psi.org/news/0903b.html
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Karrie Carnes
Population Services International
mailto:Patemp@psi.org
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