Immediate comprehensive prevention programming, including harm-reduction interventions, is warranted in order to prevent transmission of HIV among PWID and to their non-injecting sex partners.
There is now an "opportunity to mount a comprehensive prevention strategy".
Chinese consensus: screening, early diagnosis and treatment, comprehensive prevention of large bowel cancer.
This approach should also be applied to the preconception period for comprehensive prevention approaches.
And the evidence she puts forward could provide a roadmap for comprehensive prevention programs that incorporate teaching abstinence, using condoms and, most critically, emphasizing fidelity.
With about $3 billion of its $10 billion goal in hand, it is unclear whether this will be sufficient to support a comprehensive prevention and treatment strategy.
The G8 pledged to get close to "the goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support by 2010".
"Rather than pitting one disease against another, we want to uphold comprehensive prevention policies," he said in a phone interview.
While no one in Act Up thinks PEP is a cure-all in the ongoing fight to stop the spread of HIV, many believe it's a missing piece in comprehensive "prevention pipeline" that includes condoms, regular testing, and education.
But in talking Thursday about ways to end the AIDS epidemic in the United States — which he said could be accomplished within three to seven years — he voiced support for comprehensive prevention strategies.
UNAIDS reckons it will take at least $3 billion a year to implement comprehensive prevention programmes, plus basic medical treatment for half of those affected.Matters are not much better in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.
