HIV Prevention Knowledge Base: A Collection of Research and Tools to Help You Find What Works in Prevention

The HIV Prevention Knowledge Base is an online collection of research and tools that intends to help practitioners, policymakers, and students share information about what has worked in HIV and AIDS prevention. This ongoing collection of resources seeks to assist in identifying and adapting evidence-based prevention strategies for organisational programmes. It includes communication for development (C4D) information - for example, in its prevention section, knowledge includes such communication-related topics as counselling, curriculum-based education, interpersonal communication, and mass media campaign, among others.

Each knowledge base topic is introduced with a short description of the activity, its epidemiologic importance, a short synthesis of the core elements of the intervention, and a description of the current state of practice followed by:

    What We Know - summaries of the research providing the evidence base that supports the prevention approach

    Putting it Into Practice – summaries of promising interventions

    Tools and Curricula – programme materials, including tools, curricula, and models

    Additional Resources - links to additional materials and websites

Current topics available on the website include:

• An Overview of Combination Prevention
• An Overview of Structural Approaches to HIV Prevention
• Antiretroviral Therapy as an HIV Prevention Strategy
• Blood Safety and Availability
• Contraception to Prevent Unintended Pregnancies among Women with HIV
• Delayed Sexual Debut
• Harm Reduction for Injecting Drug Users
• HIV Prevention for Hard-to-Reach Men Who Have Sex with Men
• HIV Prevention for Serodiscordant Couples
• Infant Feeding for Mothers Living with HIV
• Injection Safety
• Interventions Addressing Policy Factors
• Mass Media and HIV Prevention
• Microbicides
• Multiple and Concurrent Sexual Partnerships
• Partner Reduction
• Peer Outreach and Education
• Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention (PHDP)
• Post-exposure Prophylaxis (PEP)
• Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV Prevention
• Prevention of Alcohol-related HIV Risk Behavior
• Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT)
• Transactional and Age-disparate Sex in Hyperendemic Countries
• Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
• Workplace Interventions to Prevent HIV