Rethinking Community HIV/AIDS Prevention Approach: A Community “Containment ” Approach

HIV/AIDS virus has come to stay and cannot be eradicated. In spite of the efforts of educational and other community related strategies adopted for HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa, population of HIV/AIDS victims have continued to grow. Thinking through socio-economic factors which influences risky behaviours promote the spread of HIV/AIDS, a prevention strategic model is advanced to carter for victims and reduces risky behaviour, through a proposed community approach called “containment”. The model justifies the need to integrate socio-economic, socio-political, cultural and educational approaches, to elicit actions from government, civil society, and the community people, and to empower the family for responses towards the rising need of victims, health care and reductions of the scourge