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Tanzania to launch countrywide survey on HIV/AIDS

Xinhua, September 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

Tanzanian authorities said on Friday they are planning to launch a countrywide survey on HIV/AIDS indicators and impact to determine risky behaviors and the level of new infections in the country.

Emilian Kerugendo, a statistician with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said the survey, to be launched on Sept. 14 in the political capital Dodoma, will run for a period of eight months.

"This survey is going to be different from the previous ones conducted in 2003/2004, 2007/2008 and in 2011/2012 that mainly concentrated on people between the ages of 15 and 49 years," he told a news conference in Dar es Salaam.

He said this time the survey will involve all people below 50 years old.

Kerugendo said the survey will be conducted in 525 identified areas across the country and a selected of 16,000 households, covering 42,000 people and at least 8,000 children.

The statistician said people will be tested for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, syphilis, CD4 count, viral load and drug resistance.

He said the main aim was to find out viral load, CD4 count, risky behaviors level of new infections, and HIV/AIDS infection on children under 15 years.

He said the last survey conducted in 2011/2012 showed that southern highlands zone had the highest rate of infections, where 10 among 100 people had the HIV/AIDS infection. Endit