AVAC's Blog: P-Values

In many cities and rural areas in Africa, PrEP is still a foreign idea instead of an exciting new approach that can save lives. This blog is the latest in our series of updates on PrEP advocacy in Africa. This month, we are in Zambia and our focus is on a coalition focused on key populations (those considered to be at high risk for HIV), and it just kicked off its advocacy work.

PLoS ONE released a special issue devoted entirely to the subject of voluntary medical male circumcision—one of the most effective biomedical prevention tools available today. This one-time procedure reduces men’s risk of acquiring HIV by up to 75 percent for life—and when sufficient numbers of men in a community have undergone the procedure, then women’s overall risk of acquiring HIV drops too. It’s an indispensable part of the effort to end epidemic levels of HIV.

Greetings from the last official day of R4P 2016! It’s been a week of conversations, presentations, celebrations and—sometimes—consternation. At the end of any gathering of this dynamic, dedicated field, what becomes clear is that the treasures are not the words but the people. The friends, fighters, thought leaders who propel this work forward. For our final update from the final day of HIVR4P, we offer you a round-up of (inter)national treasures.

Hello from Chicago! It’s unseasonably warm outside and predictably air-conditioned and chilly inside the conference center. We’ll try to use today’s update to transmit the heat of the conference—what got us thinking, talking and perhaps even tingling.