Combination HIV prevention must be based on evidence

Contrary to the claim that we advocate a "narrowing of HIV prevention to just one or two stand-alone interventions", we discussed more than a dozen strategies, including harm reduction for injecting drug users, consistent condom use, empower ment of sex workers, and the need to address sex...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2009-02, Vol.373 (9663), p.544-545
Main Author: Halperin, Daniel T
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Community Participation
Drug therapy
Evidence-Based Medicine
Health Priorities
HIV
HIV Infections - prevention & control
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Internal Medicine
Prevention
Public Health - methods
Risk Factors
Sexually transmitted diseases
STD
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Summary:Contrary to the claim that we advocate a "narrowing of HIV prevention to just one or two stand-alone interventions", we discussed more than a dozen strategies, including harm reduction for injecting drug users, consistent condom use, empower ment of sex workers, and the need to address sexual coercion, gender-based violence, and homo phobia.2 Although there is strong evidence for partner reduction and male circumcision,2,3 we did not claim they are "magic bullet solutions", and they were mentioned in only four of our Comment's 19 paragraphs.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60200-2