Search is on for quick and accurate measures of HIV incidence to assess impacts of interventions
Science Speaks - "How do you measure the impact of DREAMS (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe women)? FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics) researchers highlight issues, answers in tracking HIV incidence.
The goals of the U.S. and partner-backed initiative to confront conditions fueling the spread of HIV among teenage girls and young women and to help the target population “develop into Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe women,” seemed hard to quantify, but then the White House set a target. In high-burden areas across the 10 countries where the initiative was launched, rates of new infections would drop — specifically by 25 percent this year, and by 40 percent by 2017.
The challenge then, people who study HIV incidence – or rates of new infections — say, is how to find out if that happens." (Photo: United Nations / flickr)