The rate of HIV/AIDS new infection and prevalence in Tanzania has dropped to 5.7 percent in 2007/2008 down from 7.0 percent in 2003/2004, according to the latest available figures revealed by the Tanzania HIV/AIDS and Malaria Indicator Survey 2007/2008.
Tanzanian minister of state in the prime minister's office, Phillip Marmo, said while launching the report on the survey this week that the decline is a major success in the fight against the pandemic in the country.
The survey has found that women had recorded a higher prevalence rate of 6.6 percent as against the 4.4 percent posted by men in the country.
The survey, carried out in all the 26 administrative regions of Tanzania, has found that the island of Pemba in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar had registered the lowest infection and prevalence rate of 0.3 percent whereas the southern region of Iringa had the highest rate of 15.7 percent.
The survey was carried out among Tanzanians aged between 15 and 49 years
Msomaji
Dar es salaam
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Africa is without doubt the region most affected by the virus. Inhabited by just over 12% of the world's population.
Africa is estimated to have more than 60% of the AIDS-infected population. I don't know about tanzania statistics
In tanzania, several factors contribute to the spread of the HIV virus including upumbavu wa watanzania wenyewe
Worldwide 2.8m people died in 2005. this is a real problem, we need to be carefully about it
There may be elements in general tanzania culture that discourage discussion and the practice of prophylaxis: “Even when a woman wants to protect herself, she usually can't: it is not uncommon for men to beat partners who refuse intercourse or request a condom.
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