Background Effective national and global HIV responses require a significant expansion of
HIV testing and counselling (HTC) to expand access to prevention and care. Facility-based …

Background Much progress has been made in interventions to prevent HIV infection.
However, development of evidence-informed prevention programmes that translate the …

Cluster Randomised Trials, Second Edition discusses the design, conduct, and analysis of
trials that randomise groups of individuals to different treatments. It explores the advantages …

Background We estimated rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–1 transmission per
coital act in HIV-discordant couples by stage of infection in the index partner Methods We …

Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with HIV infection. We aimed to
assess whether provision of a combination of IPV prevention and HIV services would reduce …

Although domestic violence is an increasing public health concern in developing countries,
evidence from representative, community-based studies is limited. In a survey of 5109 …

Background The study tested the hypothesis that community-level control of sexually
transmitted disease (STD) would result in lower incidence of HIV-1 infection in comparison …

Objectives: To assess whether differences in age between sexual partners affect the risk of
HIV infection in female adolescents and young adults. Methods: A total of 6177 ever sexually …

Objectives: To quantify the association between intimate partner violence (IPV) and incident
HIV infection in women in the Rakai Community Cohort Study between 2000 and 2009 …

Objective Evidence of condom effectiveness for HIV and sexually transmitted disease (STD)
prevention is based primarily on high-risk populations. We examined condom effectiveness …