Cost-Effective HIV Prevention In S. And E. Africa By Scaling-Up Voluntary Male Circumcision
A collection of nine new articles to be published in PLoS Medicine and PLoS ONE, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), highlights how scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention in eastern and southern Africa can help prevent HIV not only at individual but also at community and population level as well as lead to substantial cost savings for countries due to averted treatment and care costs.
HIV AIDS Rising Rapidly In China's General Population
Rates of HIV/AIDS are rising rapidly in China's general population, according to new figures released on Wednesday by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which reveals the largest increases in recent years to be among older people and college students, due to unsafe sexual intercourse. According to the Chinese government's official press agency Xinhua, the CDC figures show that the number of men aged 60 and over with HIV has soared from 483 in 2005 to 3, 031 in 2010.
Three Pronged Strategy To End The HIV AIDS Epidemic
"NAPWA, the largest and oldest advocacy group for people living with HIV/AIDS, advocates for fighting a three-fronted war against HIV/AIDS. "Prevention. For the first time in 30 years of AIDS, we know that we have the societal and scientific tools needed to end new infections in principle, through HIV awareness and testing outreach, treatment as prevention, and safer sex and substance sharing. "The cost of not ending new infections is far greater than the cost of prevention we should not walk away from this opportunity to control future health costs by instituting and funding the policies and programs needed.