Although stigma is considered a major barrier to effective responses to the HIV/AIDS
epidemic, stigma reduction efforts are relegated to the bottom of AIDS programme priorities …

This paper makes five key points. First is that the aggregate effect of radical and sustained
behavioural changes in a sufficient number of individuals potentially at risk is needed for …

Epidemiological studies have found that young men who have sex with men (YMSM)
represent the majority of young people infected with HIV annually in the United States …

Introduction Over the past two decades, an expanding body of research has examined
women's and men's genital self‐image. Support for the reliability and validity of the 7‐item …

Ritual male circumcision is among the most secretive and sacred of rites practiced by the
Xhosa of South Africa. Recently, the alarming rate of death and injury among initiates has …

HIV-1 transmission occurs in a limited number of ways all of which are preventable. Overall,
the risk of HIV-1 transmission following a single sexual exposure is low especially in …

Heterosexual exposure accounts for most HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, and this
mode, as a proportion of new infections, is escalating globally. The scientific evidence …

We investigate the effect of a financial lottery program in Lesotho with relatively low
expected payments but a chance to win a high prize conditional on negative test results for …

Understanding the risk factors for HIV infection is the foundation of successful preventive
strategies, which must bundle sociocultural, behavioural and biomedical interventions to halt …

Nontherapeutic female genital cutting (FGC) typically conjures associations of gender
oppression and child abuse in the Western imagination. More commonly described as …