The second edition (2008) of this comprehensive guide has been fully revised and updated to include all of the latest developments in HIV prevention to help support your work.

Preventing HIV is an essential resource on all aspects of HIV prevention work. It is clearly written and easy-to-understand and provides up-to-date evidence-based information on preventing HIV infection.

Chapters include:

• A is for abstinence
• B is for being faithful and behaviour change
• C is for Condom
• D is for disclosure, serosorting and negotiating safety
• E is for emergent prevention technologies
• The role of testing in HIV prevention
• C is also for circumcision
• Using antiretrovirals for HIV prevention
• Pre-exposure prophylaxis
• Microbicides
• The search for a HIV vaccine
• HIV prevention: which methods work? 

NEW and UPDATED sections include:

• The drivers of AIDS: social and economic determinants of the epidemic
• Exactly how effective are condoms?
• Women and HIV prevention
• Female condoms
• Treating STIs, especially herpes, to prevent HIV
• Index partner treatment
• The importance of concurrent relationships
• Circumcision - will circumcision protect female partners?
• Vaccines and microbicides – analysis of the STEP study and microbicide  trial results
  

The information in this book is relevant to HIV prevention work in the UK, Europe, the United States and resource-limited settings.

“We cannot treat our way out of this pandemic. For every two patients placed on antiretroviral drugs during 2007, five new HIV infections occurred. A renewed and revitalised movement for HIV prevention is now required.” Jeffrey O'Malley (Director, HIV/AIDS Group, United Nations Development Programme) and colleagues, The Lancet Series on HIV Prevention