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ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2012

A typology of structural approaches to HIV prevention: a commentary on Roberts and Matthews.

Alexander C Tsai

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Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexander C TsaiCenter for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, United States. actsai@partners.org
Partners In Health · US

Funding

Microenterprise to empower and improve health of HIV+ women in UgandaK23MH096620 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI TSAI, ALEXANDER C · 2012 to 2016
$922k
NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH-096620NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH096620
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Renewed enthusiasm for biomedical HIV prevention strategies has followed the recent publication of several high-profile HIV antiretroviral therapy-based HIV prevention trials. In a recent article, Roberts and Matthews (2012) accurately note some of the shortcomings of these individually targeted approaches to HIV prevention and advocate for increased emphasis on structural interventions that have more fundamental effects on the population distribution of HIV. However, they make some implicit assumptions about the extent to which structural interventions are user-independent and more sustainable than biomedical or behavioral interventions. In this article, I elaborate a simple typology of structural interventions along these two axes and suggest that they may be neither user-independent nor sustainable and therefore subject to the same sustainability concerns, costs, and potential unintended consequences as biomedical and behavioral interventions.

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Health BehaviorInterpersonal RelationsAntiviral AgentsFemaleHealth PromotionHIV InfectionsHumansMaleAntiviral Agents

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PMID22877933
PMCPMC3443954
OpenAlexW2132224457

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