Prevention, Care and Treatment Work: Making Good on Lessons Learned

Eugene McCray, Director of the Global AIDS Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gave a power point presentation as part of a panel that showed evidence suggesting that risk behaviors and HIV prevalence are decreasing in certain populations. This session presented factors contributing to this change.

The presentation started out with components that support the viewpoint that "prevention works." They include:

• HIV counseling and testing
• STD treatment and counseling
• Screening the blood supply
• Basic information and education campaigns
• Youth and school-based education
• Condom availability and social marketing
• Sentinel surveillance
• Targeting those at increased risk
• Clean needle availability
• Treatment to prevent vertical transmission
• Positive policy environments

Dr. McCray provided a number of examples to illustrate how prevention can work. He spoke of: the development of Thailand's national policy on Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) and behaviour change communications in Cote d' Ivoire & the results. He gave an example of how "treatment works" from a UNAIDS' HIV drug access initiative and also described the Center for Disease Control's Global AIDS Program and its prevention services.

Click here for the power point presentation.