The odds are stacked against women in other ways too. This in turn can lead to risky sexual behaviour. Some even believe that the more a man is infected, the more likely he is to develop immunity. Another factor contributing to unsafe sex is men's resistance to women's rights movements. Often, if a women insists that her partner uses a condom, he will refuse only to prove he has the upper hand in the relationship.
Experts think it is too early to appraise the success of the project.
But government moves aside, perhaps one of the most significant outcomes of the programme is that it has managed to get men to finally talk about and face up to their sexual behaviour.