Conceptualizing a Human Right to Prevention in Global HIV/AIDS Policy.

Given current constraints on universal treatment campaigns, recent advances in public health prevention initiatives have revitalized efforts to stem the tide of HIV transmission. Yet, despite a growing imperative for prevention-supported by the promise of behavioral, structural and biomedical approaches to lower the incidence of HIV-human rights frameworks remain limited in addressing collective prevention policy through global health governance. Assessing the evolution of rights-based approaches to global HIV/AIDS policy, this review finds that human rights have shifted from collective public health to individual treatment access.

Assessing the impact of mass rape on the incidence of HIV in conflict-affected countries.

Objectives: To quantify the potential impact of mass rape on HIV incidence in seven conflict-afflicted countries (CACs), with severe HIV epidemics, in sub-Saharan Africa.

Design: Uncertainty analysis of a risk equation model.

Methods: A mathematical model was used to evaluate the potential impact of mass rape on increasing HIV incidence in women and girls in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, southern Sudan and Uganda.

Criteria for drugs used in pre-exposure prophylaxis trials against HIV infection.

The authors formulate criteria for an optimal pre-exposure prophylaxis drug candidate, and evaluate existing antiviral drug classes for their suitability.