Backgrounders: Primers and Fact Sheets

AVAC has a number of basic introductory materials including primers on PrEP and select key concepts of clinical trials including pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, adherence and futility.

We also have intervention-specific fact sheets on AIDS vaccines, PrEP, microbicides, medical male circumcision and treatment as prevention.

All are available in English and a number of other languages.

Key Concepts of Clinical Trials

• Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics: A primer for HIV prevention advocates
• Adherence in HIV Prevention Research: A primer for HIV prevention advocates
• When do you stop an HIV prevention trial for futility? A primer for HIV prevention advocates
• Fact Sheet: Data Safety Monitoring Boards
• Advocates' Guide to Statistical Terms
  

Intervention-Specific Fact Sheets

All are PDFs unless otherwise noted.

Vaccine Fact Sheet

• English/HTML version
• French
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Thai

PrEP (Pre-exposure Prophylaxis) Fact Sheet

• English/HTML version
• Arabic
• Chinese
• French
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Thai

PrEP Primer - An introduction to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) research for HIV intervention

Microbicides Fact Sheet

• English/HTML version
• French
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Thai

Medical Male Circumcision Fact Sheet

• English/HTML version
• French
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Thai

Treatment as Prevention Fact Sheet

• English/HTML version
• French
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Thai