Treatment as Prevention: An introductory factsheet

This introductory 2-page document defines treatment as prevention, reviews the scientific evidence behind it, and outlines implementation advocacy priorities. The factsheet is part of a series on emerging HIV prevention strategies.

Microbicides for HIV Prevention: An introductory factsheet

This introductory 2-page document defines microbicides and reviews the state of research on some leading candidates.

Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (MPTs): An introductory factsheet

This introductory 2-page document makes the case for why women need prevention options that protect them against multiple risks—HIV, STIs and/or pregnancy—and discusses the products that are being studied for this purpose. The factsheet is part of a series on emerging HIV prevention strategies.

Women and HIV Prevention Research: Designing, testing and marketing products to improve adherence

The fourth webinar in AVAC’s Research & Reality series, a year-long dialogue about prevention research and advocacy, this webinar provided a forum to learn about and discuss key issues around women and the HIV prevention agenda, including challenges around marketing of and adherence to new prevention options. Click for speaker details, slides and audio.

2005 AVAC Report: AIDS Vaccines at the Crossroads

This year’s Report offers recommendations for the field in general, the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, policy makers, researchers and communities. Some of these recommendations will be familiar because AVAC has made them before, and they are reiterated because it is AVAC’s belief that they are still needed. The Report also provides an update on tenofovir pre-exposure prophylaxis research.

2004 AVAC Report: AIDS Vaccine Trials: Getting the Global House in Order

This year’s Report focuses on how the field is readying itself for the road ahead. Several chapters address different aspects of “readiness”—a term that means different things to different people, but that is at the heart of the AIDS vaccine advocacy agenda today.

Capitalizing on Scientific Progress: Investment in HIV Prevention R&D in 2010

This annual accounting of funding for biomedical HIV prevention research tracks trends and identifies gaps in investment. The 2011 report describes the funding environment in the wake of a number of the findings of efficacy in the RV144, CAPRISA, iPrEx and HPTN 025 trials and calls for sustained funding to build on these results.

2013 AVAC Report: Research and Reality

Research & Reality calls on funders and researchers to capitalize on lessons learned from a range of recent HIV prevention trials via better problem solving, more critical thinking and coordinated action. This year’s AVAC Report identifies progress and gaps in large-scale human trials, rollout of proven options and ongoing research for new advances that women and men will want to use.

Good Participatory Practice: Guidelines for biomedical HIV prevention trials, second edition

The Good Participatory Practice (GPP) guidelines offer trial funders, sponsors and implementers systematic guidance on how to engage stakeholders throughout the research lifecycle of HIV prevention trials.

This second edition of the guidelines, published in 2011, contains three sections: The Importance of Good Participatory Practice, Guiding Principles of GPP in Biomedical HIV Prevention Trials and Good Participatory Practices in Biomedical HIV Prevention Trials. The sections provide context, foundational principles and key practices.

2012 AVAC Report: Achieving the End—One Year and Counting

AVAC Report 2012, Achieving the End—One Year and Counting, sets a clock on the global drive to end the AIDS epidemic. The past twelve months have seen remarkable global consensus that it is possible to begin to end the epidemic. The same time period has seen concepts like “combination prevention” and “treatment as prevention” capture the world’s attention. But without specific interim goals—and far more precision about what combination prevention and other key concepts mean—the lofty goal of ending the epidemic will not be achieved.