HIV and sexuality curricula programmes that address gender or power are five times more effective than those that do not

Posted on June 9, 2015 at 6:14 am

Context: Curriculum-based sexuality and HIV education is a mainstay of interventions to prevent STIs, HIV and unintended pregnancy among young people. ...

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Literacy and technology experience are predictors of a successful mHealth programme

Posted on June 9, 2015 at 6:11 am

Background: Despite investments in infrastructure and evidence for high acceptability,few mHealth interventions have been implemented in sub-Saharan Africa. Objective: We ...

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Impact of Maternal HIV Seroconversion during Pregnancy on Early Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (MTCT) Measured at 4-8 Weeks Postpartum in South Africa 2011-2012: A National Population-Based Evaluation

Posted on June 9, 2015 at 6:08 am

Background Mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) depends on the timing of HIV infection. We estimated HIV-seroconversion during pregnancy (HSP) after ...

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HIV and TB in prisons

Posted on May 11, 2015 at 5:46 am

Aids Foundation East-West (AFEW) has recently been privileged to make a contribution to Equilibri.net the online magazine of an Italian ...

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Successful Integration of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Prevention Intervention Programming

Posted on May 11, 2015 at 5:25 am

Women who received standard HIV services plus community- and facility-based interventions to detect, prevent, and address intimate partner violence (IPV) ...

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UNAIDS 2015: Biomedical AIDS Research: Recent and Upcoming Advances

Posted on April 20, 2015 at 5:52 am

The report is divided into an overview section that articulates the views of the Chair of the Scientific Expert Panel ...

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Social protection contributes to HIV prevention

Posted on March 24, 2015 at 4:32 am

Poverty alone is not necessarily a driver of HIV risk. It interacts with other structural factors – including mobility, social ...

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Emerging themes for sensitivity training modules of African healthcare workers attending to men who have sex with men: a systematic review

Posted on March 9, 2015 at 4:16 am

Sensitivity training of front-line African health care workers (HCWs) attending to men who have sex with men (MSM) is actively ...

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Smart Investments for Financing the Post-2015 Development Agenda – ICPD

Posted on January 20, 2015 at 9:14 am

The cost of funding the Post-2015 Development Agenda is estimated to be trillions of dollars a year.1 While this magnitude ...

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AIDSFree Prevention Update, January 2015

Posted on January 12, 2015 at 5:58 am

Welcome to the AIDSFree Prevention Update, a new initiative of the Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation (AIDSFree) ...

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