Pueblo couple backs Ugandan bid to combat AIDS
Drs Ken and Kim Dernovsek
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Chastity Education, Inc.
(UCE) is an
educational organization established in 2004 and
determined to be a public charity, status 170
(b) (1)
(A) (vi), exempt from Federal income tax
under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code. Its
purpose is to promote through education sexual
abstinence until marriage and marital
fidelity as
healthy lifestyles free from sexuallytransmitted
diseases including HIV and AIDS. UCE operates in
Uganda,
AFRICA, with staffed headquarters in
Kampala and most youth outreach/educational
events take
place in rural Uganda. Universal Chastity
Education,
Inc. is duly registered under the Republic of
Uganda
Non-governmental Organisations Registration
Statute,
1989, certificate #6196. UCE activities
launched in
Burundi, AFRICA
in December 2006.
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Kim and Ken Dernovsek
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By Marvin Read, The PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN,
December 15, 2007
A Pueblo married couple, Kim and Ken
Dernovsek, have a ministry that reaches from
Colorado to Uganda and nearby Burundi.
In an era when "just say yes" is a fairly
typical approach to sexual activity outside
of marriage, the Dernovseks are big on "just
say no."
What the Dernovseks - both
are physicians -
are principally taking aim at is HIV and
AIDS, and they have become deeply involved in
a spirited movement in Uganda, where there's
a cooperation between church and state that
intends to reduce the incidence of the
sexually transmitted disease.
That secular-religious partnership has been
so effective that statistics reveal a
significant decline from an alarming 21
percent prevalence in 1991 to a far more
comfortable rate of 6.7 percent in 2005,
according to the World Health Organization
and an AIDS-focused United Nations
agency.
"Uganda has experienced the most significant
decline in HIV prevalence of any country in
the world," noted Edward Green, author of
"Rethinking AIDS Prevention: Learning from
Successes in Developing Countries."
Green told the Joint United Nations Program
on HIV/AIDS in 2002 that, "The most important
determinant of the reduction in HIV incidence
in Uganda appears to be a decrease in
multiple sexual partnerships and networks"
and that the effect of the interventions,
particularly a reduction in the number of
partners, "appears to have had a similar
impact as a potential medical vaccine of 80
percent efficacy."
The Dernovseks became aware of the Ugandan
successes and formed a group, Universal
Chastity Education Inc., to support the
Africans. "The Ugandans have successfully
promoted to their youth a lifestyle of
respect for sexuality and saving sex only for
a faithful marriage - chastity," Kim
Dernovsek said.
"UCE's vision is to maintain that success for
them and share it elsewhere."
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Photo: Dr. Ken Dernovsek (right) scans
queries submitted during a 2007 UCE Uganda
youth outreach
session.
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