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Important step for global security
This letter to the lancet discusses the need to meet the increasing demand for access to modern family planning and family as a strategy for global security
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RISBibTexAPAResponse to Ronald Gray, Male circumcision and HIV acquisition and transmission: cohort studies in Rakai, Uganda
Halperin D, Weiss H, Hayes R, Auvert B, Bailey R, Caldwell J, Coates T, Padian N, Potts M, Ronald A, Short R, Williams B, Klausner J
This response article discussed the potential role of male circumcision in HIV prevention
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RISBibTexAPAMicrobicides and HIV: Help or Hindrance?
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2003
We present a simple mathematical model for assessing the effects of introducing a microbicide as an HIV infection protective method
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RISBibTexAPAInnovations in access to TB and HIV/AIDS care in sub-Saharan Africa: dynamic engagement of the private sector
Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2003
Published in Appl Health Econ Health Policy, 2003, 2(4):175-80
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RISBibTexAPATwo pills, two paths: a tale of gender bias
In Japan, it took over 30 years to register the contraceptive Pill, but it took only six months to approve Viagra. The Pill was developed in an academic institution and no large pharmaceutical manufacturer wished to market it. Viagra was developed inside a big company and actively promoted. In the USA, the Pill was almost removed from the market because of widely publicized reports of deaths, but mortalities associated with Viagra do not make the headlines. Viagra has been promoted by the famous, whilst those who use the Pill do not appear in advertisements. Even theologians have treated these two drugs according to different standards. It is suggested that this asymmetry is not accidental, but is an expression of a deep-seated dual standard that is ultimately driven by biosocial differences in male and female power, and reproductive agendas rooted in human evolution.
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RISBibTexAPATackling India’s HIV epidemic: lessons from Africa
India stands on the brink of a major HIV epidemic. However, by examining where public health initiatives went wrong in Africa, the international community may be able to help India avoid the devastating effects seen in Africa
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RISBibTexAPAUsing microbicides to fight the spread of HIV
This letter to Science discusses the future of microbicides
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RISBibTexAPAPartner reduction is crucial for balanced “ABC” approach to HIV prevention
Potts M, Shelton J, Halperin D, Nantulya V, Gayle H, Holmes K
Behaviour change programmes to prevent HIV have mainly promoted condom use or abstinence, while partner reduction remains the neglected component of ABC
The key to preventing the spread of HIV, especially in epidemics driven mainly by heterosexual transmission, is through changing sexual behaviour. Interest has been growing in an “ABC” approach in which A [...]
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RISBibTexAPAAbility to pay for maternal health services: what will it take to meet WHO standards?
Prata N, Greig F, Walsh J, West A
This article reviews the economic feasibility of the WHO's mother-baby package as a means of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity in Tanzania
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Three meetings and fewer funerals–misoprostol in postpartum haemorrhage
Potts M, Campbell M
Lancet, 2004
This commentary article refers to the meeting of the International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (FIGO) in Santiago, Chile in 2003, which made reducing post-partum hemorrhage a priority, and two meetings supported by Venture Strategies in May and July 2004 in Kampala, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya, which took the first steps toward meeting that goal
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