Personalized Biobehavioral HIV Prevention for Women and Adolescent Girls

Personalized Biobehavioral HIV Prevention for Women and Adolescent Girls

BACKGROUND Women and adolescent girls bear a significant burden of the global HIV pandemic. Both behavioral and biomedical prevention approaches have been shown to be effective. In order to foster the most effective combination HIV-prevention approaches for women and girls, it is imperative to understand the unique biological, social, and structural considerations that increase vulnerability to...

HIV prevention among adolescent girls and young women

HIV prevention and research considerations for women in sub-Saharan Africa: moving toward biobehavioral prevention strategies.

This paper addresses current and emerging HIV prevention strategies for women in Sub-Saharan Africa, in light of recent trial results and ongoing research. What are the major opportunities and challenges for widespread implementation of new and emerging HIV prevention strategies? The paper discusses the major individual, social and structural factors that underpin women's disproportionate risk ...

Biomedical technologies for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections and HIV for adolescent girls and young women.

Department of Reproductive Health and Research and UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1211, Switzerland; Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37203 USA; University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine and British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Va...

Feasibility and initial efficacy testing of an HIV prevention intervention for Black adolescent girls.

HIV is disproportionately prevalent among Blacks. Black women most often contract HIV from having risky sex, and adolescence is a time when risky sex behaviors peak. This study tested the feasibility and initial efficacy of an intervention designed to help Black adolescent girls avoid risky sex behaviors. The intervention included group education for girls followed by a service learning opportu...