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Mapping Pathways Reveals Importance of Localised Strategies for Using ARVs to Prevent HIV/AIDS
Feb 10, 2014
This is the first international report on HIV prevention with antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that brings scientific evidence together with community perspectives. We show that ARV-based prevention needs to be tailored to local contexts and cultures.
Developing evidence-based, people-centred strategies for the use of antiretrovirals as prevention
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Mapping Pathways is a multinational project to develop and nurture a research-driven, community-led global understanding of the emerging evidence base around the adoption of antiretroviral (ARV)-based prevention strategies to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The project is based on the premise that the current array of prevention options is not sufficient; new pathways to prevention, based on enhanced assessment and analysis of likely impact, are needed to address new infections adequately.
ARVs are opening up new options for HIV prevention, such as 'treatment as prevention' (often referred to as 'TLC+' [testing, linkage to care], plus treatment), microbicides, oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). There are multifaceted challenges associated with these new prevention strategies related to access, cost, behavioural and health impacts, and implementation.
Mapping Pathways: Developing evidence-based, people-centred strategies for the use of antiretrovirals as prevention is designed to support critical thinking and development of a new research agenda for the analysis of multiple policy options — the pathways — that should be considered by prevention planners, programmers and funders when addressing the opportunities and challenges of the new ARV paradigm.
Chapter One
The Mapping Pathways journey: snapshots from the beginning
Chapter Two
Snapshots from the empirical literature
Chapter Three
Snapshots from the grassroots evidence base
Chapter Four
Snapshots from the grasstops evidence base
Chapter Five
Snapshots from the ExpertLens survey
Chapter Six
An integrated perspective: how to map pathways to good decisionmaking
The research described in this report was sponsored by Merck & Co. and conducted by RAND Europe.
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