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The KIWAKKUKI program asked the Duke University to provide testing against HIV in Tanzania as the HIV infection rate in Tanzania is about 8.8 %. After testing it was found that so far about 16.7 % of those tested at KIWAKKUKI are HIV positive.

The researcher John Crump, M.D., a Duke assistant professor of medicine who works full-time at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Tanzania said that people are flocking towards the testing centers as they want to know if they are infected. The reason for these huge crowds to visit the testing centers is that there is cure for HIV with the antiretroviral therapy.

Thielman says that the main aim is to prevent HIV but money is the biggest barrier since free HIV testing and counseling provides good results it should be continued. At the moment for $92 invested in free HIV testing and counseling at an organization such as KIWAKKUKI, an HIV infection can be averted. These testing centers reduce high-risk sexual behavior and prevent HIV transmission and thereby provide treatment for sexually-transmitted diseases and prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.


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