Prevención, corresponsabilidad entre los distintos países y recursos económicos. Estas son las claves para combatir una enfermedad que aún padecen 38 millones de personas en todo el mundo.
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Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
CAPRISA was created in 2001 and formally established in 2002 under the NIH-funded Comprehensive International Program of Research on AIDS (CIPRA) by five partner institutions; University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Cape Town, University of Western Cape, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, and Columbia University in New York. CAPRISA is a designated UNAIDS Collaborating Centre for HIV Prevention Research. The main goal of CAPRISA is to undertake globally relevant and locally responsive research that contributes to understanding HIV pathogenesis, prevention and epidemiology as well as the links between tuberculosis and AIDS care. To achieve this goal, CAPRISA conducts research in four main Scientific Programmes namely: HIV Pathogenesis and vaccines, HIV and TB treatment, Microbicides, and Prevention and Epidemiology. A fifth area of research on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission is conducted mainly in partnership with other Centres. Each program has a focused set of projects. Research activities at CAPRISA are supported by eight support cores including, administration, statistics, data management, laboratory, community, pharmacy, bioethics, and information systems. The fiduciary and policy oversight of CAPRISA is governed by the Board of Control which includes senior officials of the major partner institutions. The CAPRISA Scientific Advisory Board comprises senior researchers in the HIV/AIDS, TB and Ethics fields, as well as senior officials from the Provincial and National Department of Health. The Executive committee, responsible for the management of all CAPRISA’s activities, is chaired by the Director and includes the Centre’s senior investigators and Heads of the Support Cores.
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We need a combination of new approaches to reduce age disparate sex. And we need new technologies to protect young women.
Experts across the board have identified inequality as a major challenge to efforts to end AIDS.
La educación de las mujeres jóvenes es fundamental para luchar contra la desigualdad económica, la dependencia femenina en las relaciones y la violencia de género. Y un elemento fundamental para acabar con la pandemia de sida.
Adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 accounted for 25% of new infections, while making up only 10% of the population.
Les variants ont changé la donne. Nous devons agir en conséquence pour éviter de nouvelles vagues d’infections, de nouvelles fermetures, restrictions, hospitalisations et décès évitables.
COVID-19 variants of concern have changed the game. We need to recognise and act on this to avoid future waves of infections, yet more lockdowns and restrictions, and avoidable illness and death.
The redirection of resources to COVID-19 has enormous consequences for the provision of healthcare services for other diseases, in particular, HIV programmes.
Communities continue to be vital in efforts to bring the pandemic under control. They are the custodians of rich knowledge that creates the context in which HIV transmission occurs.
Three new studies conducted in South Africa provide insights into the engine that drives HIV transmission in the country.
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Behavioural Scientist, Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
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Head: Treatment Research in HIV and TB, Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
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Deputy Director, Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
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Director, Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
