Looking at HIV Treatment with a New Lens
Research suggests that comprehensively considering how HIV threatens many aspects of menâs lives â instead of just their health â could help more men initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART).
Tag: HIV
In Eswatini, Community Leaders Drive the Data
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.
Helping Women of All Ages Prevent HIV Transmission
CCP, which leads a successful program designed to prevent HIV in adolescents and young women, has created a new program for women over 30.
Successful Caribbean Partnership to Live On
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.
Large Study Finds No Link Between Contraception Methods and HIV
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.
âMaking Male Circumcision the Normâ in Rural Mozambique
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.
Using Soccer to Teach About HIV Risk
âYoung people find programming that doesnât 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.â
Study: Privacy Concerns Keep Men from HIV Testing, Treatment
âUnderstanding the perspective of men is critical to tailoring health communication and clinical services to meet their needs,â says CCP's Natalie Tibbels. Her research is published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Communicating Implications as Important as Results Themselves
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.
âI Know That it Made Me Changeâ
An evaluation of CCPâs Brothers for Life program in Cote dâIvoire finds that it was successful in getting at-risk men tested for HIV and, if diagnosed with the virus, treated with antiretroviral therapy.