[afro-nets] RFI: Research collaborations: HIV\AIDS (4)

["Gang Caspa" <gcaspa@yahoo.co.uk>]

David,

Your idea sounds interesting. I worked in an HIV clinic in Yaounde Cameroon for close to 5 years and saw a large number of discordant couples. My team where able to counsel and reassure many of these couples to accept and live with their prevailing predicament. In most cases, it was very difficult to establish if the victim was involved in an unsafe extra-marital affair. It will be interesting to carry out such a study but then recognizing the fact that most of the cases will always lay blame to other forms of exposure and perhaps rightly so, given the degree of stigmatization out there.

Cheers

Dr Richard G Caspa
School of Epid. and public health
University of Nottingham, UK
mailto:gcaspa@yahoo.co.uk