Criteria for inclusion

Studies had to:

  • be published in the USA between 2000 and 2004
  • present outcome data on “HIV testing behaviour or sexual or drug-injecting behaviour that directly impact the risk of HIV transmission”
  • have at least one outcome measure that was statistically significant (p = ≤0.05)
  • have no measure that displayed a statistically significant negative outcome
  • have at least 50 subjects (the minimum number was, in fact, 175)
  • have a control arm
  • measure outcomes at least three months after the end of the intervention
  • have, at this point, a ‘lost to follow-up’ (drop-out) rate of no more than 30
  • analyse all participants regardless of their degree of prevention exposure (i.e.  an ‘intent-to-treat’ analysis).

Importantly, the CDC did not rank programmes according to their degree of effectiveness because outcome measures were so heterogeneous.

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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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