PEPFAR 2006, Durban

• PEPFAR - an overview of HIV prevention research from the 2006 Implementers Meeting
• Cultural obstacles to abstinence and being faithful present challenges for PEPFAR HIV programmes
• PEPFAR: Greater wealth, not poverty, associated with higher HIV prevalence in Africa, according to survey
• PEPFAR: Epidemiologist presents a scientific rationale for focusing on Abstinence & Being Faithful in sub-Saharan Africa
• PEPFAR: PMTCT improving but services only reaching small percentage of women in need
• PEPFAR: Early weaning to avoid mother-to-child transmission of HIV could endanger infant’s health
• FDA approves first three-drug fixed-dose tablet for PEPFAR use
• PEPFAR project reports reduction in the number of partners among Zambian truck drivers
• PEPFAR: HIV prevention for injection drug users in Africa a growing issue
• PEPFAR and Global Fund both highly effective, but is the funding sustainable?
• Is PEPFAR competing or cooperating in treatment scale-up?