{"id":342,"date":"2009-09-01T00:03:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T04:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg-development\/?p=342"},"modified":"2011-11-20T21:06:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T01:06:30","slug":"uncomfortable-knowledge-pepfar-hiv-risk-reduction-and-safer-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/2009\/09\/01\/uncomfortable-knowledge-pepfar-hiv-risk-reduction-and-safer-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncomfortable Knowledge: PEPFAR, HIV Risk Reduction and Safer Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/files\/2011\/11\/Cafaro-and-Bicknell_Uncomfortable-Knowledge-PEPFAR-HIV-Risk-Reduction-and-Safer-Sex_Fall-2009.pdf\"><strong>Uncomfortable Knowledge: PEPFAR, HIV Risk Reduction and Safer Sex<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carrie Cafaro and William J. Bicknell<\/p>\n<p>HIV prevention that focuses on abstinence, faithfulness and condoms (ABC) has not worked well, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We present the data in support of a more nuanced approach to safer sex that emphasizes riskreduction and increases prevention options consistent with the new, more liberal, recently reauthorized, President&#8217;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) language that calls for evidence-based interventions. It is time to consider the benefits of promoting realistic substitutes for intercourse, specifically oral sex &#8212; equivalent in risk to sex with a condom &#8212; as well as mutual and self-masturbation. We explore the reasons behind the resistance to promoting safer sex and suggest ways forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncomfortable Knowledge: PEPFAR, HIV Risk Reduction and Safer Sex Carrie Cafaro and William J. Bicknell HIV prevention that focuses on abstinence, faithfulness and condoms (ABC) has not worked well, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We present the data in support of a more nuanced approach to safer sex that emphasizes riskreduction and increases prevention options consistent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,15],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donor-assistanceaid","category-hivaids","tag-pepfar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}