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Jones A, Cremin I, Abdullah F, Idoko J, Cherutich P, Kilonzo N, Rees H, Hallett T, O'Reilly K, Koechlin F, Schwartlander B, de Zalduondo B, Kim S, Jay J, Huh J, Piot P, Dybul M. Transformation of HIV from pandemic to low-endemic levels: a public health approach to combination prevention. Lancet 2014; 384:272-9. [PMID: 24740087 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(13)62230-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Large declines in HIV incidence have been reported since 2001, and scientific advances in HIV prevention provide strong hope to reduce incidence further. Now is the time to replace the quest for so-called silver bullets with a public health approach to combination prevention that understands that risk is not evenly distributed and that effective interventions can vary by risk profile. Different countries have different microepidemics, with very different levels of transmission and risk groups, changing over time. Therefore, focus should be on high-transmission geographies, people at highest risk for HIV, and the package of interventions that are most likely to have the largest effect in each different microepidemic. Building on the backbone of behaviour change, condom use, and medical male circumcision, as well as expanded use of antiretroviral drugs for infected people and pre-exposure prophylaxis for uninfected people at high risk of infection, it is now possible to consider the prospect of what would be one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of public health: reduction of HIV transmission from a pandemic to low-level endemicity.
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- Alexandra Jones
- O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- South Africa National AIDS Council (SANAC), Pretoria, South Africa
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- National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Abuja, Nigeria
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- National AIDS/STD Control Programme (NASCOP), Nairobi, Kenya
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- Liverpool Voluntary Counselling and Testing, Care and Treatment, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand, South Africa
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Office of the Deputy Executive Director for Programme, UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland
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- O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Director's Office, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA; The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Schafer A, Friedmann W, Mielke M, Schwartlander B, Koch MA. The increased frequency of cervical dysplasia-neoplasia in women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus is related to the degree of immunosuppression. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-7292(91)90512-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Annan K, Piot P, Schwartlander B, Berman D, Davis P, Kaninda AV, Ouma C, Leghentsev K. Wealthy nations called on to boost support efforts. Five-year plan estimated to cost $9.2 billion. AIDS Alert 2001; 16:99-101. [PMID: 11547707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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Using the 20-year mark in the history of AIDS as a catalyst, the United Nations and other international organizations have called upon the world's wealthier nations to increase attention, support, and funding to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts. This call to action included a series of meetings with business and political leaders and culminated in the first United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, held in June.
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Lyytikainen O, Ziese T, Schwartlander B, Matzdorff P, Kuhnhen C, Burger C, Krug W, Petersen LR. Outbreak of Q fever in Lohra-Rollshausen, Germany, spring 1996. Euro Surveill 1997; 2:9-11. [PMID: 12631826 DOI: 10.2807/esm.02.02.00136-en] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Q fever is an acute (and sometimes chronic) febrile illness caused by the rickettsial organism Coxiella burnetii. The commonest animal reservoirs for C. burnetiiare cattle, sheep, and goats. Infected animals shed the organisms, which resist desiccation, i
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- O Lyytikainen
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, USA
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