Ron Brookmeyer
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16 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2013
last heard Mar 2013
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Many of the statistics were based on women attending antenatal clinics.
Obviously, surveys among pregnant women in antenatal clinics are not representative necessarily.
of the whole country, because first, there's no data from that that reflects men.
These are women who have been sexually active.
They're women in a certain age range.
And often there are differences between urban and rural areas who are attending these antenatal clinics.
And in fact, what we have seen is when estimates based on antenatal clinic data
The reason has to do with the quality and reliability of the statistics that we have to work with.
The statistics are based on a combination of...
surveys, longitudinal studies and computer models.
And the completeness and accuracy of the data sources varies a lot by country.
Do those changes in the figures reflect real underlying changes in the epidemic, or do they simply reflect changes to new data sources that are coming online, or changes to the inputs into the various computer models?
It's, in a sense, comparing apples to oranges.
We've had a lot of prevention successes, including antiretrovirals for infected persons that decrease their risk of transmitting to others, antiretrovirals for high-risk uninfected persons, which reduce
their risk of acquiring infections, increases in testing and counselling and condom usage, circumcision.
All of these have been shown in rigorous epidemiological studies and clinical trials to be effective.
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