Daily Shaarli
July 14, 2019
reddit: TIL President Diouf began an anti-AIDS program in Senegal, before the virus was able to take off. He used media and schools to promote safe-sex messages and required prostitutes to be registered. While AIDS was decimating much of Africa, the infection rate for Senegal stayed below 2 percent
In Senegal, West Africa, TM was taught to everyone--wards, guards, staff, inmates--at 30 of the 34 federal prisons (about 90% total of the federal inmates). Virtually all 30 of wardens at the TM prisons reported overnight (literally overnight) and very drastic, drops in prison violence the weekend the program started, and subsequent measures were consistent with the overnight drops.