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Enhancing HIV prevention requires addressing the complex relationship between prevention and treatment

dc.contributor.author Henderson, K en_US
dc.contributor.author Worth, Heather en_US
dc.contributor.author Aggleton, Peter en_US
dc.contributor.author Kippax, Susan en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T15:37:43Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T15:37:43Z
dc.date.issued 2009 en_US
dc.description.abstract Globally each year, HIV continues to infect millions of people, and the number of people living with HIV and AIDS grows. While there has been an increase in funding for HIV and AIDS, there is a growing gap between the funds available and the funds needed for both prevention and treatment. Yet, one of the means of closing that gap - preventing new infections - has slipped down the agenda. In arguing for a significant intensification of the HIV prevention response, and the relevance of a strong social stance within this response, this paper addresses the need to manage finding a balance between prevention and treatment and care. Not only is there not enough being spent on HIV prevention, but also in some instances, the prevention agenda has been hijacked by those who favour morally conservative, but ineffective, HIV prevention strategies. We argue that effective prevention needs to be firmly located within the everyday realities affecting communities and societies, and needs to focus on what is known to work. In particular, we need to move beyond a public health underpinned by neo-liberal notions of agency and individual responsibility to a public health that recognises the collective nature of epidemics, and works with communities and networks to transform social relations. This latter, more `social` public health, is concerned with the social, political and economic factors that produce HIV risk and responses to it. Contrary to what some might suggest, HIV prevention has not failed, rather, governments and donors have failed HIV prevention. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1744-1692 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/44850
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other Prevention funding en_US
dc.subject.other Global health en_US
dc.subject.other HIV/AIDS en_US
dc.subject.other Social determinants en_US
dc.subject.other global health en_US
dc.subject.other antiretrovirus agent en_US
dc.subject.other acquired immune deficiency syndrome en_US
dc.subject.other antiviral therapy en_US
dc.subject.other behavior change en_US
dc.subject.other clinical effectiveness en_US
dc.subject.other community care en_US
dc.subject.other drug cost en_US
dc.subject.other funding en_US
dc.subject.other PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES (FORC:111700) en_US
dc.title Enhancing HIV prevention requires addressing the complex relationship between prevention and treatment en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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unsw.identifier.doiPublisher http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441690802191329 en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 2 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Global Public Health en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 117-130 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 4 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Henderson, K en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Worth, Heather, National Centre in HIV Social Research, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Aggleton, Peter en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Kippax, Susan, National Centre in HIV Social Research, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school Centre for Social Research in Health *
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