New PAI Publications Highlight the Need for Comprehensive HIV Prevention!

PAI's two latest publications, Comprehensive HIV Prevention: Condoms and Contraceptives Count and Reclaiming the ABCs: The Creation and Evolution of the ABC Approach, demonstrate the dire need for investment in comprehensive HIV prevention efforts that include condoms and contraceptives.

Comprehensive HIV Prevention: Condoms and Contraceptives Count points out that most HIV epidemics are fueled by unprotected sex between men and women, making the provision of condoms a crucial intervention. This publication calls for the recognition that preventing unintended pregnancies among HIV-infected women and women at risk of infection is an overlooked, yet critical, method for preventing transmission of HIV from mother-to-child—one of the most tragic aspects of the HIV epidemic.

Reclaiming the ABCs: The Creation and Evolution of the ABC Approach reviews the history of what has become one of the most controversial aspects of U.S. HIV/AIDS policy—the ABC approach (Abstain, Be Faithful, use Condoms). The paper recommends that the ABC approach return to its public health roots, promoting the whole alphabet of HIV prevention approaches, and giving people the complete and comprehensive information they need to decide for themselves which prevention behavior is most appropriate in the context of their lives.

Read: Comprehensive HIV Prevention: Condoms and Contraceptives Count

Read: Reclaiming the ABCs: The Creation and Evolution of the ABC Approach

PAI VP Gives Speech in Berlin on World Contraceptive Day!

September 26 was World Contraceptive Day, a global campaign to raise awareness of contraception and the need to reduce the high levels of unplanned pregnancy, and to improve knowledge about reproductive and sexual health. PAI VP for Research Karen Hardee celebrated the day in Berlin, where she presented the findings of Comprehensive HIV Prevention: Condoms and Contraceptives Count.

Read Dr. Hardee's blog from Berlin: World Contraceptive Day

PAI Travels to Accra, Ghana to Discuss Aid Effectiveness!

Earlier this month, PAI Research Associate Suzanna Dennis traveled to Accra, Ghana to attend the Accra International Women’s Forum on aid effectiveness, along with 200 women and men from around the world. She also attended the CSO Parallel Forum on Aid Effectiveness which drew over 700 participants from across the globe. Both fora fed into the inter-governmental Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, to improve the management and delivery of donor aid and maximize its development impact.

To learn more about these events, read Suzanna's blog from Ghana: Aid Effectiveness: Will It Produce the Results We Want?

PAI Welcomes Atlas Fellows!

PAI is pleased to announce the arrival of two Atlas Corps Fellows. The Atlas Corps Fellowship Program is a one-year training program for rising nonprofit leaders from the global south to volunteer in the United States. Meher Rehman and Santosh Kumar will be working at PAI through August 2009, contributing their expertise and perspectives to PAI’s work.

Read PAI Welcomes Atlas Fellows!

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