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June 2011
Public-private partnerships critical to develop new HIV prevention tools, opinion piece says
June 24, 2011 -- “Promising research in HIV prevention is taking center stage, ushering in a new era in the fight against HIV and AIDS, and we have public-private partnerships to thank for many of the recent achievements,” Ward Cates, president of research at Family Health International, Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa Salim Abdool Karim, and Myron of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill write in the Huffington Post. They add that in the “past year, notable progress has been made in the field of HIV prevention,” including breakthroughs in microbicides, pre-exposure prophylaxis, and early antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. “These achievements were only made possible by the partnership between publicly funded scientists and private drug companies,” the authors write, adding, “The recent evidence on the use of ARV drugs for HIV prevention moves us closer than ever before to changing the course of the HIV epidemic in Africa, and indeed, globally.” They conclude, “As the world celebrates these scientific findings, we are reminded that the public-private partnership involves being able to both ‘do good’ and also ‘do well.’ These win-win examples demonstrate that with effective partnerships, conviction and leadership, overcoming HIV is within our grasp.” See the link below for more information.
