Sudan: HIV rate is mostly guesswork

VCT only became available in Port Sudan in 2006 and, according to Ahmed Musa, local coordinator of the Sudanese National AIDS Control Programme (SNAP), it has been slow to catch on. Of the 181 people who were tested here in 2007, only 18 walked through the door on their own initiative; the rest were HIV "suspects" referred by their doctors, and more than half had positive test results.

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