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Search is on for quick and accurate measures of HIV incidence to assess impacts of interventions

Search is on for quick and accurate measures of HIV incidence to assess impacts of interventions

Science Speak - "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)

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