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is the VOA Special English Development Report. A common about AIDS and marriage is that husbands are more to infect wives than the other way around. Generally this may be true. But a researcher has found women may be responsible for more infections than experts thought. Vinod Mishra at Macro International, a research group the United States, led a study of married couples Africa. He studied what are known as discordant couples. meant one partner had HIV..., the virus that causes , while the other did not. He examined population records medical information from eleven African countries. He found that four of these eleven countries, women were the infected in a majority of cases. This was true in percent of couples in Ivory Coast and Kenya. Wives also the majority of infected partners in Ethiopia and . Lesotho had the smallest percentage of couples where only wife was infected. Yet even there it was thirty-four . How does Vinod Mishra explain these findings? More women be entering marriage already infected, he says. Or they be getting HIV... from non-sexual causes. Maybe they received injection with a needle that had been used before someone with HIV... But the researcher does not think are the main explanations. He says there is clear that a majority of women are getting infected within from a person other than their husband. AIDS prevention to change behavior have been aimed mostly at men. all, men have generally been considered the main source the spread of HIV... This thinking has been guided part by the theories of AIDS investigators based on own reports about their sexual behavior. But Vinod Mishra one possibility is that women are not fully reporting sexual history. He says more research is needed before can be any firm theories about HIV... infections and . This issue is not about who is to blame, tells us, but instead about saving lives and developing best AIDS programs possible. He presented his findings in at a meeting in Rwanda. The event was organized the American effort known as PEPFAR, the Presidents Emergency for AIDS Relief. And that's the VOA Special English Report, written by Jill Moss. To learn more about , go to voaspecialenglishcom.. Im Shep ONeal.

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