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Review
. 2004 Apr 10;328(7444):891-3.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7444.891.

Partner reduction is crucial for balanced "ABC" approach to HIV prevention

James D Shelton  1 , Daniel T Halperin, Vinand Nantulya, Malcolm Potts, Helene D Gayle, King K Holmes
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Review

Partner reduction is crucial for balanced "ABC" approach to HIV prevention

James D Shelton et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Behaviour change programmes to prevent HIV have mainly promoted condom use or abstinence, while partner reduction remains the neglected component of ABC

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Fig 1
Poster from Uganda's AIDS Control Programme in the late 1980s
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Fig 2
HIV prevalence and reported use of condoms and commercial sex among police in Cambodia, 1997-2002. The method for asking about condom use changed in 1999, which accounts for part of the increase from 1998 to 1999
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