Emerging Issues in Today's HIV Response Debate Series
Debate Three: Discordant Couples and HIV Transmission
The third debate in the USAID and World Bank-sponsored Emerging Issues in Today’s HIV Response Debate Series featured expert panelists arguing for and against the proposition: “Intra couple HIV transmission between couples in long term stable partnerships drive a majority of HIV transmission and should receive the majority of HIV prevention funding.”
The debate was moderated by Karl W. Hofmann, President and CEO of Population Services International. Supporting the proposition were Dr. Susan A. Allen, Director of the Rwanda Zambia HIV Research Group and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the School of Medicine and at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and Dr. Ronald Gray, Roberston Professor of Reproductive Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Co-principal Investigator of the Rakai Health Sciences Program in Uganda. Arguing against the proposition were Dr. Daniel Halperin, Lecturer on Global Health at Harvard University School of Public Health, and Dr. Elizabeth Marum, Regional HIV Prevention Counselor for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Summary Report (PDF, 196 KB) to read more.
Additional Materials
- Program for Debate 3 (PDF, 689 KB)
- Supplemental Information (PDF, 543 KB)
- Flyer for Debate 3 (JPG, 157 KB)
- Prevention Knowledge Base: Combination Approaches
Combining mutually reinforcing biomedical, behavioral, and structural interventions to build a comprehensive, lasting, and effective response to HIV - Prevention Knowledge Base: HIV Prevention for Serodiscordant Couples
- Prevention Knowledge Base: Behavioral Interventions
Strategies that promote safer behaviors to prevent HIV - Prevention Knowledge Base: Structural Interventions
Efforts to address social, political, and economic factors that increase vulnerability to HIV
