AIDSTAR-One Spotlight
Title: Eliminating Pediatric HIV/AIDS: What It Will Take and What It Will Bring
Sustained research successes during the first two decades of the AIDS epidemic, an unprecedented expansion of HIV prevention and treatment programs during the last decade, and recent global attention and leadership have set the stage for the virtual elimination of new HIV infections in infants in the next decade.
Title: Evidence-Based Approaches to Protecting Adolescent Girls at Risk of HIV
Despite decades of investment in HIV prevention, a large and vulnerable population—adolescent girls—remains invisible, underserved, and at disproportionate risk of HIV.
Title: Alcohol and Risky Sex: Breaking the Link
In countries battling the most severe HIV epidemics in the world, there is yet another powerful and under-addressed structural force at play: the ubiquitous availability of cheap alcohol and drinking norms that encourage its hazardous use. Katherine Fritz advocates for a multilevel response to alcohol and risky sex behavior.
Title: A Holistic Approach to HIV Prevention Programming for Female Sex Workers
With recent epidemiology showing a continual rise in HIV rates among sex workers, Melissa Ditmore argues that now is time to develop holistic, effective, and efficient programming.
Title: Preventing Gender-Based Violence: Lessons from the Field
Gender-based violence (GBV) is increasingly recognized as a critical driver of the HIV epidemic in many settings, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where the incidence of HIV infection is growing at alarming rates among young women in particular. There are few examples of interventions that have successfully tackled the challenge of combining HIV and violence prevention, but two innovative programs, one in Nicaragua and the other in Uganda, have found ways to do so. Mary Ellsberg and Myra Betron describe the work of Puntos de Encuentro and Raising Voices to share successful approaches to address GBV with other program planners.
Title: Balancing Research With Rights-Based Principles of Practice for Programming for Men Who Have Sex With Men
In this issue of Spotlight on Prevention, George Ayala underscores the need for increased attention to and resources for HIV prevention programming for MSM.
Title: Reducing HIV Infection in Young Women in Southern Africa
Quarraisha Abdool Karim calls on implementers to “push the paradigm,” amplifying promising approaches to HIV prevention among young sub-Saharan women. Innovative approaches are urged to further the impact of school completion programs, test and treat frameworks, and interventions to increase accurate self-risk perception.
Title: The Astonishing Neglect of an HIV Prevention Strategy: The Value of Integrating Family Planning and HIV Services
Rose Wicher and Ward Cates from FHI make the case for increased attention to prevention of unintended pregnancy among HIV-infected women in this edition of Spotlight on Prevention.
Title: Uganda’s Zero Grazing Campaign
Helen Epstein provides insight into her book examining Uganda's pioneering Zero Grazing Campaign targeting multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships.
