Global mobilization for HIV prevention: a blueprint for action

The working group report that by rapidly scaling up existing, successful prevention programmes, it will be possible to contain and ultimately reverse the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The paper reviews successful prevention strategies but points out that such programmes reach less than one in five of those who are vulnerable. A number of scientific studies that measure the effectiveness of programmes in preventing infection via all forms of transmission are reviewed.

The report discusses the major obstacles to the upscaling of effective prevention methods, which it identifies as:

• limited resources
• lack of local capacity
• stigma
• lack of political commitment
• the need for greater access to treatment
• the need for new treatments and technologies

Recommendations are made to tackle these obstacles through building capacity, increasing resources and accelerating research into new prevention technologies.