Luanda – The director of the National Institute to Fight against HIV/AIDS, Dulcelina Serrano Monday in Luanda said that women register a greater number of HIV infection than men especially in rural areas.

According to the source who was speaking at the opening of the 1st Congress of Health Sciences held by the Clinic Multiferfil, the lack of education and knowledge by women of varied communities contribute to the spread of the disease in the country.

Dulcelina Serrano said that during a study made by the National Institute to Fight AIDS only 40 percent of women in rural areas know about the disease and others 60 percent do not know or believe in the pathology, adding that most of the women with the disease are spouse of military men.

She stressed that the study also revealed that more than 50 percent of the population in particularly women devalue any prevention and do not believe in the disease.