AIDS 2022: How to tailor HIV prevention efforts to people’s needs

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One of the hot topics at the recently concluded AIDS 2022 conference held in Montreal, Canada, was how HIV prevention interventions such as pills or injections that prevent HIV infection should be made available to different groups of people. Tiyese Jeranji spoke to some local experts and an activist about the rich set of discussions.

AIDS 2022: How to tailor HIV prevention efforts to people’s needs

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Posted in: Child health, Edition 6: HIV & teens, Edition 9: State of HIV, Healthcare system, HIV/AIDS, Latest, Reproductive Health, SRHR

Even though the rate of new HIV infections in young women and adolescent girls remains stubbornly high, provision and uptake of pills that can prevent HIV infection have generally been slow and lagging. One potential solution presented at the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections is to provide the pills at schools. Tiyese Jeranji reports.