HIV and AIDS
Prevention

Prevention is the key to reducing the future burden of HIV and AIDS on individuals and societies.

Evaluating existing HIV prevention strategies and developing new approaches to avoid the disease are essential components of the Population Council’s research and interventions.

This research seeks to reach individuals at multiple levels simultaneously to support abstinence when appropriate, reduce risk-taking, and increase health-promoting behavior.

Interventions targeting individuals, couples, peer groups, and communities work synergistically to support behavior change.

Prevention remains the largest area of HIV and AIDS research for the Population Council. The majority of work on this issue is implemented by Horizons, the Council-administered HIV operations research program and funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). However, there are significant studies being conducted by Council researchers in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam that are not US government-sponsored.

Projects

• Africa/Regional: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
• Americas: Migration and Sexually Transmitted Infections (Including HIV and AIDS) in the Americas: Lessons Learned and Recommendations

• Ethiopia: HIV Prevention for Vulnerable Adolescent Girls

• India: Assessing the Patterns and Drivers of Migration and Mobility of Sex Workers and Male Migrant Workers on the Move and Examining the Links with HIV Risk

• Interregional: Reproductive Tract Infection Management

• FRONTIERS projects

  • Cameroon: Peer Education as a Strategy to Increase Contraceptive Prevalence and Reduce the Rate of STIs/AIDS Among Adolescents in Cameroon
  • Dominican Republic: Contraceptive Services in Postpartum, Postabortion, and PMTCT Programs
  • Dominican Republic: Understanding Successful Condom Use in the Dominican Republic

  • Ethiopia: Improving Reproductive Health and HIV Prevention Among Married Adolescents in Amharic, Ethiopia

  • Kenya: Feasibility, Effectiveness, and Cost of Models of Integrating Counseling and Testing for HIV Within Family Planning Services in Kenya

  • Lesotho: Extending Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV Through Postpartum Family Planning

  • Nicaragua: Situation Analysis of the Use of Contraception in Postpartum, Postabortion, and Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) Programs

  • South Africa: Developing an Integrated Model for Post-rape Care and HIV Post-exposure Prophylaxis in Rural South Africa and Expanding Access to Comprehensive Post-rape Services

  • South Africa: Feasibility and Cost-effectiveness of an Improved and Integrated Package of Routine Services for Antenatal Clients Attending Public Clinics in South Africa

  • South Africa: Feasibility, Effectiveness, and Cost of Models of Integrating Counseling and Testing for HIV Within Family Planning Services in South Africa

  • South Africa: Testing the Effectiveness of Community-based Strategies in Reducing Gender-based Violence and Promoting Positive Male Involvement in Reproductive Health Activities

• Horizons projects

  • Global: Cooperative Project with WHO to Produce a Review of VCT Programs for Youth
  • Botswana: Evaluation of Adherence to Short Course Antiretroviral Prophylaxis for PMTCT in Francistown, Botswana
  • Brazil: Acceptability of the Female Condom by Sex Workers
  • Brazil: Comparison of Male and Female Condoms in Preventing Exposure to Semen During Typical Use
  • Brazil: HIV Prevention, Testing, and Treatment for Mobile Populations: Focus on Truck Drivers in Brazil

  • Brazil: Promoting Healthy Relationships and HIV/STI Prevention for Young Men in Brazil

  • Brazil: Risk Factors for HIV Infection in the MSM Population in the Metropolitan Area of Campinas City, Brazil, Using Respondent-driven Sampling

  • Brazil: Validation of the Accuracy of Prostate-specific Antigen Detection in Vaginal Fluids Obtained by Self-sampling as a Marker of Semen Exposure and Condom Failure

  • Burkina Faso: Impact Assessment of Burkina Faso People Living with HIV/AIDS Study

  • Burkina Faso: New Approaches to Integrating STIs/HIV/AIDS, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health in Bazèga, Burkina Faso

  • Burkina Faso, Ecuador, India, Zambia: Diagnostic Study on the Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS in the Delivery of Community-based Prevention and Care Services

  • Dominican Republic: Evaluation of a 100-Percent Condom Use Policy in Sex Establishments

  • Ghana: Testing Prepackaged Therapy for Male Urethral Discharge Syndrome in Ghana: A Feasibility Study

  • India: Examining Adherence to Treatment and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in India: A Diagnostic Study

  • India: From PPTCT to PPTCT Plus: Improving Access to Treatment, Care, and Support for HIV-positive Women and Their Families

  • India: Reducing Young Men's HIV Risk and Violence Against Women by Promoting Gender-equitable Norms and Behavior in India

  • India: Scaling Up Affordable and Appropriate Care and Support Services for People Living with HIV/AIDS in South India

  • Kenya: Barriers to Uptake of Pediatric HIV Treatment and Care in Kenya: A Diagnostic Study

  • Kenya: Community-based Approaches to Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
  • Kenya: Comprehensive Behavior Change Communication to Promote the "ABCs": Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Using Condoms

  • Kenya: Evaluating the Effect of Stigma-reduction Interventions on PMTCT Providers and Clients

  • Kenya: HIV Prevention with Positive People in Mombasa, Kenya: How Do We Support Them in the Community?
  • Kenya: Operations Research Around the Introduction of  Antiretrovirals in the Management of HIV-infected Individuals in Mombasa, Kenya

  • Kenya: Preparedness of Health Workers to Implement Diagnostic HIV Testing and Counseling and Provide Comprehensive AIDS Management

  • Kenya: School as a Workplace: Addressing the HIV Prevention and Care Needs of Teachers in Kenya
  • Kenya: Understanding the HIV Prevention Needs of Men Who Have Sex with Men in Nairobi

  • Madagascar: Comparison of Two STI Treatment and Prevention Interventions Among Sex Workers in Madagascar

  • Mexico: Programming for HIV Prevention in Mexican Schools
  • Nepal: Intervention Needs for the Prevention of Trafficking and the Care and Support of Trafficked Persons in Nepal

  • Nicaragua: Stigma Reduction and Community Mobilization for HIV Prevention via Multimedia Programs

  • Nigeria: Promoting Dual-Protection Practices Among Women and Their Male Partners in Ibadan, Nigeria
  • Paraguay: Assessment of the Risk Factors for HIV Infection in Vulnerable Populations in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
  • Senegal: Responding to the HIV/STI Risks and Health Needs of Men in Dakar, Senegal

  • South Africa: Addressing Stigma and Strengthening Prevention, Care, and Support Services for Workers

  • South Africa: Building the Capacity of Faith-based Organizations to Deliver Mutual Monogamy Interventions to Church Members in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

  • South Africa: Different Models of Delivering Antiretroviral Therapy and Integration with Tuberculosis Services in South Africa: A Situation Analysis

  • South Africa: Evaluating the Carletonville STD/HIV Project

  • South Africa: Evaluation of mothers2mothers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  • South Africa: Exploring Current Practices in Pediatric ARV Rollout and Integration with Early Childhood Programs in South Africa

  • South Africa: Integrating “Abstinence” and “Be Faithful” (AB) into the Life Skills Program in Mpumalanga Province

  • South Africa: Involving Young People in the Care and Support of AIDS-affected Children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  • South Africa: A Pilot Community-based Intervention Program to Address the Needs of Elderly Caregivers in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

  • South Africa: Programming for HIV Prevention in South African Schools

  • South Africa: Technical Assistance to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (NMCF), Goelama Project

  • Swaziland: Repositioning Postnatal Care in a High HIV Prevalence Environment: Operations Research in Swaziland

  • Tanzania: HIV-associated Violence: Implications for HIV Counseling and Testing Programs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  • Tanzania: Reducing HIV Risk Through Violence Prevention with Young Men in Tanzania

  • Thailand: Evaluation and Accreditation of Workplace AIDS Programs

  • Thailand: Programming for HIV Prevention in Thai Schools
  • Uganda: Building Evaluation Capacity Among the Staff of the Straight Talk Program

  • Uganda: Voluntary Counseling and Testing Among Youth: Phase II Operations Research

  • Vietnam: Expanding Workplace HIV/STI Prevention Activities for Migrant Construction Workers
  • Vietnam: Reducing HIV/AIDS-related Stigma and Discrimination in the Health Care Setting in Vietnam
  • Zambia: Caring for Health Workers: Addressing Psychosocial Burden of HIV/AIDS on Health Personnel in Zambia
  • Zambia: Community Education and Referral: Supporting Adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment and Prevention for People with HIV in Zambia
  • Zambia: Decisions to Seek HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing Among Zambian Adolescents: Influences of Individual, Familial, and Environmental Factors
  • Zambia: Ndola Demonstration Project on Maternal and Child Health in Zambia: Preventing Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV
  • Zambia: Promoting the Sustainability of PLHA Care and Support Activities by Young People in Zambia
  • Zimbabwe: Female Condom User Study in Zimbabwe
  • Zimbabwe: Reducing STD/HIV Risk Among Pregnant Women and Their Partners in Zimbabwe

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See Also

• "From lab bench to bedroom: The Population Council's HIV and AIDS research program," fact sheet (PDF)
• Horizons Publications/Resources on HIV/AIDS Prevention  
• "Male circumcision appears to protect men at risk of HIV infection; But cultural, medical, and ethical issues should be explored before the procedure is recommended as an intervention" 2000 news release (full text)

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