World AIDS Day 2019: Working together to fight AIDS A selection of BMC studies

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This year's World day
focuses on the role of community forces in the fight against AIDS, including local support and education, the provision of diverse services at the regional level, and global awareness of
.1these factors may increase the spread of HIV, so a key intervention is to make adolescent girls stronger.
The AGEP study recruited Zambian girls aged 10-19 and divided them into four groups, three of which participated in a two-year "safe space" conference hosted by older women in the community, focusing on health, life and financial skills. Of the three groups, one received an additional voucher to purchase health care services, and one group received a savings account in its own name, in addition to a health voucher.
results showed that these interventions had no significant effect on child marriage rates, contraceptive use, or HIV infection rates. But for participants who had become sexually active, the "safe space" meeting did reduce their sex trade rates, and the subjects who received all three interventions were the most effective.
As a funder of the trial, the Population Council considered deeper socio-economic interventions needed and advised the DREAMS (Resolute, Tenacious, Independent, Helpless, Guided, Safe) Initiative.
includinggirlsRead! In addition to giving "safe spaces" meetings, the Zambia study also provided e-readers for female students in their final year of primary school, which contained books written by African writers that included positive images of women. While this intervention appears to have improved students' scores in reading and writing ability and non-language reasoning, further research is needed to demonstrate its significant health effects.
population council is also currently conducting a study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of the "One Community" project in Malawi. The project aims to encourage HIV testing and access to health care services, reduce HIV-related sexual behaviour and encourage gender equality among high-risk groups, known as "high-risk groups", mainly orphans and other vulnerable children, adolescent girls and young women.
south Africa, a study is evaluating the PEPFAR/USAID Community Response Project to raise awareness of sexual, gender-based and HIV prevention.DANIDA KP study in Tanzania trained intravenous drug users, men in male relationships (MSMs) and women engaged in the sex trade to inform other high-risk GROUPs about access to health care and violence prevention services. The study's methodology has been published
research.
a study in the UK and Uganda is developing and testing a new intervention to inform potential sexual partners about their health, mainly through peer-led young people with vertical HIV infections.
UK's TARGET feasibility study explores how to improve the online recovery rate of HIV test kits - training some MSM men or transgender people before making small cards effective for peers, or making it more effective to put up posters at LGBT venues?in this age of well-developed networks, people can also connect in virtual communities. SelPHI research focuses on advertising on apps such as Grindr and Facebook pages, recruiting MSM men and transgender people. Examples of these ads or information are listed in the published method. People who contacted the researchers through advertising and qualified were randomly divided into two groups, one that did not undergo any baseline tests, and the other that distributed HIV self-test kits, where subjects were able to test their blood or saliva at home using diagnostic kits and get results within 15 minutes.
test results showed a relatively high acceptance rate of the kit, with 96% of the subjects tested within 3 months of receiving the kit. MSMs can be recruited through advertising across England and Wales, but only a small number of transgender women can be recruited, and these MSMs are understandably diverse in age, race and educational and cultural background.
and support
HIV/AIDS can increasingly be carried out within the community. Reducing the spread of HIV requires broader social, cultural and structural changes to reverse the disadvantages of vulnerable groups and end vilification. Everyone in the community, even those who are not directly
HIV/AIDS, should work to bring about such a change. On
of the world's 10th, let's work together to help defeat inequality and stop the spread
disease (Source: Science.com)