Research suggests that comprehensively considering how HIV threatens many aspects of men’s lives – instead of just their health – could help more men initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART).
CCP is engaging with influential local leaders to help them collect data to make decisions that could reduce the nation’s high HIV infection rate.
CCP, which leads a successful program designed to prevent HIV in adolescents and young women, has created a new program for women over 30.
A successful partnership aimed at using knowledge management to unite the response to HIV in the Caribbean will continue even after CCP’s K4Health project ends in September.
But the high rate of HIV infections, despite gold-standard care in the trial, is a call to action for improved HIV prevention and contraceptive choice for women that addresses social and structural factors influencing behavior.
A CCP project increased five-fold the number of men in two Mozambican provinces undergoing circumcision in just two years. Circumcision is an HIV prevention strategy.
“Young people find programming that doesn’t involve play to be boring. They have very short attention spans,” says CCP’s Thomas Ofem. “This program is designed to get kids moving and learning at the same time.”
“Understanding the perspective of men is critical to tailoring health communication and clinical services to meet their needs,” says CCP’s Natalie Tibbels. Her research is published in the journal PLOS ONE.
A clinical trial is exploring a potential link between certain contraceptives and HIV acquisition. Careful dissemination of the findings is vital to keeping women safe and family planning momentum going, says CCP’s Susan Krenn.
An evaluation of CCP’s Brothers for Life program in Cote d’Ivoire finds that it was successful in getting at-risk men tested for HIV and, if diagnosed with the virus, treated with antiretroviral therapy.
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