Preventing HIV is an essential resource on all aspects of HIV prevention work. It is clearly written and easy-to-understand and provides up-to-date evidence-based information on preventing HIV infection:

• Through safer sex
• Through behaviour change
• Using antiretroviral drugs
• Through HIV testing

 To

• Which HIV prevention methods work best?
• Microbicides
• Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
• HIV vaccines

 Sections also include:

• the role of testing in HIV prevention
• abstinence and being faithful as prevention strategies
• circumcision as an HIV prevention method
• disclosure, serosorting and negotiated safety
• controversies and evidence about condom use

The information in this book is relevant to HIV prevention work in the UK, Europe, the United States and resource-limited settings.
“The harsh mathematics of this epidemic proves that prevention is essential to expanding treatment. Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable”
Bill Gates