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Averting New Infections Key to Controlling Pandemic

Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2004;292:1163-1164.

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Bangkok—With no viable AIDS vaccine on the near horizon, slowing the runaway train that is the world's AIDS pandemic is going to require implementing other prevention strategies on a large scale.

While much of the world's attention has been on finding ways to make anti-HIV drug treatment accessible to the millions worldwide, preventing new infections is crucial to keep treatment needs from continuing to outstrip treatment efforts, said public health experts, clinicians, and others meeting here at the 15th International AIDS Conference.

Although promoting condom use will continue to be a key feature of HIV prevention programs, scientists are studying a number of new prevention strategies. (Photo credit: P. Virot/UNAIDS)

"Without a greatly expanded prevention effort, treatment is simply not sustainable," said Peter Piot, MD, MPH, who heads the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

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