RWANDA

By the end of 2001, 9% of the adult population in Rwanda was HIV-positive, including 65,000 children, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Rwanda has a generalized epidemic with all sites reporting greater than 1% prevalence, but the epidemic is not equally distributed throughout the urban and rural areas of the country. Contraceptive use is low (4%), as is condom use in the general population (1.4% female; 4% male). Rwandans report a median age at first sex at around 21 years for both men and women. In the 2000 Youth Behavioral Surveillance Survey, 29% of males and 12% of females aged 15 to 19 reported ever having sexual intercourse, though only 4% of females and 6% of males reported having sex within the past 12 months (sexually active). There is a high use of antenatal care services, with 92% of pregnant women attending at least one prenatal visit In Rwanda. In contrast, home delivery is the norm, with only 26% of Rwandans delivering in a health care facility. These patterns of service use have important implications for the design and execution of Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission (PMTCT) interventions.
(source: CDC GAP fact sheet)