Achieving the potential of HIV prevention interventions: critical global need for collaborative dissemination efforts.
Achieving the potential of HIV prevention interventions: critical global need for collaborative dissemination efforts.
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发挥艾滋病毒预防干预措施的潜力:全球迫切需要合作传播工作。
DOI:
10.1097/qad.0b013e328312c76a
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发表时间:
2009
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通讯作者:
Fisher,JeffreyD
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作者:
Norton,WynneE;Fisher,WilliamA;Fisher,JeffreyD
Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 25 million people have died from AIDS [1], and an estimated 33 million individuals are living with HIV/AIDS worldwide [1]. Every day, over 5700 individuals die from AIDS [1], and approximately 6800 people become newly infected with HIV [1]. In the absence of an effective HIV prevention vaccine, and in light of substantial vaccine-development setbacks [2], the current best means for combating the epidemic is widespread implementation of effective HIV prevention interventions [3], including those that are medically focused (eg, circumcision and antiretrovirals for prevention of vertical transmission) and those that are behaviorally focused (eg, interventions to increase condom use, HIV testing, and safer injection drug use practices). To date, medical, behavioral, and social scientists have dedicated a tremendous amount of time and resources to develop evidence-based HIV prevention interventions for a range of populations and prevention settings, using an array of intervention approaches and intervention delivery methods [4].Despite such advances, widespread application of effective HIV prevention interventions has been minimal. A considerable number of HIV infections and AIDS deaths worldwide are a result of inadequate access to HIV prevention services rather than the lack of important breakthroughs in the prevention field [5]. Mathematical modeling techniques have identified cost-effective and even cost-saving evidence-based medical and behavioral interventions with the ability to avert millions of new HIV infections [5]. However, we will fail to prevent a significant number of deaths if we do not take immediate action toward disseminating these effective HIV prevention interventions widely.