Africa’s Top HIV Testers: Rwanda, Kenya and Malawi
According to a recent report released by the World Health Organization (WHO), the African countries of Rwanda and Kenya have the highest rates of HIV testing through their tuberculosis care programs, South African newspaper The Citizen/AllAfrica.com report (allafrica.com, 3/18).
According to the article, Rwanda led the group with a 76 percent testing rate followed by Malawi with 64 percent and Kenya with 60 percent.
The WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Control report for 2008 also showed that 700,000 TB patients were tested for HIV in 2006—up from 22,000 in 2002.
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Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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Overheard in the Women's Forum
"I think that it's OK to be angry. I am sometimes—it's natural—we are HIV positive. but I always try to not let myself stay there too long. Let yourself feel you are human. You should not beat yourself up about being angry."
