So much of the money for HIV/AIDS interventions is spent on treating the sick that I wonder how much we value prevention. Recent work modeling the impact of immediate availability of antiretroviral therapy on HIV incidence suggest treating the HIV-infected would curb transmission (see January 2009 issue of The Lancet). Mead Over at the Center [...]
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An ounce of prevention no longer worth a pound of cure?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AIDS, funding, HIV, hiv/aids, incidence, intervention, prevention, research, study, transmission, treatment on 7 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Sad Research Topic
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, AIDS, aids activist, HIV, hiv/aids, obituary, research, south africa, thembi ngubane on 14 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Most days I talk about how I wish I didn’t study AIDS because I think it’s an overdone topic receiving too much attention when there are other problems with wider impacts affecting rural Africa. But, honestly, there’s another reason why I wish I studied something else: AIDS is sad. Interviewing people sick with AIDS is [...]
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