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Remaking HIV Prevention: The Promise of TasP, U=U and PrEP

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Remaking HIV Prevention in the 21st Century

Part of the book series: Social Aspects of HIV ((SHIV,volume 5))

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HIV has always been, and continues to be, as much a social phenomenon and challenge as it is a clinical one. Controlling transmission and containing the virus relies on engaging with and adjusting the social contours of behaviours and practices. Efforts to prevent acquisition and enable ‘protection’ against HIV continue to illuminate the complexity, multiplicity and dynamism of relationships in context, from the micro level of person to person interaction extending up to the global stage of political economies. Despite major biomedical breakthroughs over the course of the HIV epidemic, the influence of the social has not diminished. What risks being diluted through the optimism evoked by the biomedical promise though is how immediately visible and relevant the role of the social remains in efforts to prevent, control and perhaps ‘eliminate’ HIV.

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  1. School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Sarah Bernays

  2. Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

    Sarah Bernays

  3. Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Adam Bourne

  4. Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Adam Bourne

  5. Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Susan Kippax

  6. Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Peter Aggleton

  7. Centre for Gender and Global Health, UCL, London, UK

    Peter Aggleton

  8. Institute for the Study of Collective Health, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Richard Parker

  9. Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology, Colombia University, New York, USA

    Richard Parker

  10. Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Richard Parker

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  2. Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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  3. Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia

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Bernays, S., Bourne, A., Kippax, S., Aggleton, P., Parker, R. (2021). Remaking HIV Prevention: The Promise of TasP, U=U and PrEP. In: Bernays, S., Bourne, A., Kippax, S., Aggleton, P., Parker, R. (eds) Remaking HIV Prevention in the 21st Century. Social Aspects of HIV, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69819-5_1

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