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  • HIV treatment as prevention : debate and commentary : will early infection compromise treatment-as-prevention strategies? 
    Cohen, Myron S.   Dye, Christopher   Fraser, Christophe   Miller, William C.   Powers, Kimberly A.   Williams, Brian G. (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2012-07)
    Universal HIV testing and immediate antiretroviral therapy for infected individuals has been proposed as a way of reducing the transmission of HIV and thereby bringing the HIV epidemic under control. It is unclear whether ...
  • HIV treatment as prevention : optimising the impact of expanded HIV treatment programmes 
    Delva, Wim   Eaton, Jeffrey W.   Meng, Fei   Fraser, Christophe   White, Richard G.   Vickerman, Peter   Boily, Marie-Claude   Hallett, Timothy B. (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2012-07)
    Until now, decisions about how to allocate ART have largely been based on maximising the therapeutic benefit of ART for patients. Since the results of the HPTN 052 study showed efficacy of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in ...
  • HIV treatment as prevention : principles of good HIV epidemiology modelling for public health decision- making in all modes of prevention and evaluation 
    Delva, Wim   Wilson, David P.   Abu-Raddad, Laith   Gorgens, Marelize   Wilson, David   Hallett, Timothy B.   Welte, Alex (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2012-07)
    Public health responses to HIV epidemics have long relied on epidemiological modelling analyses to help prospectively project and retrospectively estimate the impact, cost-effectiveness, affordability, and investment returns ...
  • The potential impact of male circumcision on HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa 
    Williams, Brian G.   Lloyd-Smith, James O.   Gouws, Eleanor   Hankins, Catherine   Getz, Wayne M.   Hargrove, John   De Zoysa, Isabelle   Dye, Christopher   Auvert, Bertran (Public Library of Science -- PLoS, 2006-07)
    Background A randomized controlled trial (RCT) has shown that male circumcision (MC) reduces sexual transmission of HIV from women to men by 60% (32% 76%; 95% CI) offering an intervention of proven efficacy for reducing ...
  • Tuberculosis control has failed in South Africa : time to reappraise strategy 
    Wood, Robin   Lawn, Stephen D.   Johnstone-Robertson, Simon   Bekker, Linda-Gail (Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2011)
    South Africa's rate of tuberculosis (TB) has increased over the last 20 years, to now having the third-highest TB burden in the world. The TB control programme has primarily focused on effective case management of passively ...