By Prevention Option
This area of the website provides information
on the range of biomedical HIV prevention
strategies being tested or recently
approved—these include AIDS vaccines,
pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), microbicides,
male circumcision, treatment as prevention, and
HSV-2 suppression.
In each section, you will find:
Each of these experimental interventions presents the possibility of a new option for individuals to help reduce their risk of HIV. None of these interventions on its own can end the epidemic. However, there is an urgent need to expand access to proven prevention methods including clean needles, female and male condoms, risk reduction counseling, treatment of sexually transmitted infections, and other strategies. The new strategies being tested today could be powerful additions to this toolbox of proven prevention strategies.
There are numerous issues, like research ethics, that cut across these intervention areas. For more on these issues, please visit the By Issue section.
In each section, you will find:
- Basic information about the intervention
- What is it?
- Why is it being tested as a possible HIV prevention option?
- How is it tested?
- Where is the research taking place?
- Who is involved in the research?
- When will results be available?
- A table of ongoing and/or completed clinical trials
- Information on recent trial results
- Intervention-specific resources
Each of these experimental interventions presents the possibility of a new option for individuals to help reduce their risk of HIV. None of these interventions on its own can end the epidemic. However, there is an urgent need to expand access to proven prevention methods including clean needles, female and male condoms, risk reduction counseling, treatment of sexually transmitted infections, and other strategies. The new strategies being tested today could be powerful additions to this toolbox of proven prevention strategies.
There are numerous issues, like research ethics, that cut across these intervention areas. For more on these issues, please visit the By Issue section.