WorldAIDSDay | HIV campaign tackles sex taboos in South Sudan
However the 35-year-old on Saturday joined hundreds in the capital Juba to get tested for HIV/Aids and learn about the use of condoms to combat the disease, in a rare public sex education campaign in the country wracked by six years of war.
Makech told AFP that in his village anyone using a condom would be considered a prostitute and that asking someone to use one would probably insult them. In South Sudan"the use of condoms is attributed to immorality. When you use condoms you are immoral. People think the use of condoms is for... going outside your marriage to have sex with someone," said Gordon.
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