Condoms for the World Cup and other ways to keep HIV at bay

MIAMI—In three months hundreds of thousands of soccer fans are expected to descend on nine South African cities for the 2010 World Cup. But for so many visitors going to a country where more than 10 percent of the population is estimated to have HIV/AIDS, many public health experts are worried that the event will kick off a spike in transmission. South Africa, in turn, has responded by requesting one billion condoms for the year (many of which will be supplied by the U.K.)—more than twice as many as usual, the BBC noted.

"Jo'burg is awash in condoms," Myron Cohen, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said of Johannesburg. Cohen made his remarks here Thursday at the 14th annual International Congress on Infectious Diseases.