The prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a measure of disease burden which is important in evaluating HIV prevention programmes and in designing new preventive strategies.
Yet temporal sequence and causality have been questioned, and few HIV prevention programmes address these issues.
The survey's authors concluded: "These data suggest that the first priority for most HIV prevention programmes should be men with HIV and men in relationships with them".
Because sex work remains illegal in South Africa, it is driven underground, and the women involved are unable to access health services and HIV prevention programmes.
Syringe exchange and other HIV prevention programmes for injecting drug users (IDUs) in this geographic region should be expanded rapidly.
The HIV prevention cascade is emerging as a new approach to guide the design and monitoring of HIV prevention programmes in a way that integrates these multiple perspectives.
To present findings that gender might be more predictive of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted disease (STD) knowledge, and sexual behaviour, compared with participation in knowledge-based HIV prevention programmes.
"Despite this, HIV prevention programmes remain critically under-funded.
3 Most HIV prevention programmes are run in schools, but churches provide an alternative setting.
This framework has previously been used in the examination of HIV prevention programmes [ 20, 21].
Nonoxynol-9 is therefore no longer studied in HIV prevention programmes.
