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HIV and AIDS As the HIV pandemic enters its third decade, access to drug treatment and care and support for all infected persons increasingly are seen not only as moral imperatives but as critical strategies for prevention. The issue of treatment has received considerable attention in part because of a significant reduction in the price of antiretroviral medications manufactured by major pharmaceutical companies. The emerging rationale for providing treatment, care, and support to large numbers of people has resulted in a reexamination of the relationship between prevention, treatment, care, and support. Increasingly, each of these is seen as linked to the other. For example, prevention can be seen as having at least two important components: (1) preventing exposure to HIV through appropriate behavior change and (2) preventing further HIV transmission by infected persons through antiretroviral treatment to reduce infectivity. Similarly, care and support can be viewed as including a treatment component using antiretrovirals or other drugs for opportunistic infections and a prevention component for uninfected caregivers. The research summary profiles below provide an overview of the Population Council research on this issue. Selected Projects
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