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The Best Strategy to Defeat HIV in South Africa

By Guest PostSeptember 7, 2012General, Health'second line, aids prevention, allergy, defeat, drug, drug resistant, health organization, hiv, hiv epidemic, infectious disease, mathematical model, sally blower, South Africa, strain, strategy, symptom, test and treat, WHO, world

UCLA study challenges World Health Organization’s approach

The World Health Organization is about to roll out a new strategy for AIDS prevention in South Africa, a country where more than 5 million people are infected with HIV. Based on a mathematical model, the WHO predicts this strategy will completely eliminate HIV in South Africa within a decade.

But not so fast, suggests a group of UCLA researchers. Their work challenges the proposed strategy by showing it could lead to several million individuals developing drug-resistant strains of HIV. And further, they say, it will cost billions of dollars more than the WHO has estimated. (more…)

Project Aims To Improve HIV/AIDS Prevention Materials For African-American Women

African-American women make up a disproportionate number of HIV/AIDS cases in the United States. Researchers from North Carolina State University are trying to change that, leading a National Science Foundation project aimed at developing HIV/AIDS prevention materials that resonate with African-American female college students.

African-Americans represent approximately 14 percent of the U.S. population, but accounted for an estimated 44 percent of new HIV infections in 2009. The estimated rate of new HIV infections among African-American women was 15 times that of white women and over three times that of Latina women. (more…)

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The Best Strategy to Defeat HIV in South Africa

Project Aims To Improve HIV/AIDS Prevention Materials For African-American Women