HIV Treatment-As-Prevention Research: Authors’ Reply

Authors' Reply: Response to Ian Clark

Jennifer Vines This is the fi rst of 12 Correspondence pieces in this issue that are in response to an important PLoS Medicine Research Article: Auvert B, Taljaard D, Lagarde E, Sobngwi-Tambekou J, Sitta R, et al. (2005) Randomized, controlled intervention trial of male circumcision for reduction of HIV infection risk: The ANRS 1265 trial. PLoS Med 2(11): e298. Readers wishing to add their own ...

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Maximising the effect of combination HIV prevention in Kenya--Authors' reply.

1426 www.thelancet.com Vol 384 October 18, 2014 Authors’ reply We agree with Sally Blower and Brian Coburn that the aim of HIV prevention programmes is to reduce HIV incidence among men and women and that focusing resources on those locations with the greatest intensity of transmission can increase the eff ect of these programmes. When limited resources are allocated in a way that maximises the...

Synergies, tensions and challenges in HIV prevention, treatment and cure research: exploratory conversations with HIV experts in South Africa

BACKGROUND The ethical concerns associated with HIV prevention and treatment research have been widely explored in South Africa over the past 3 decades. However, HIV cure research is relatively new to the region and significant ethical and social challenges are anticipated. There has been no published empirical enquiry in Africa into key informant perspectives on HIV cure research. Consequently...

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