Research Success Stories

• HIV Testing in the Mali Demographic and Health Survey Sets Standard [PDF, 1MB]
  The Mali Ministry of Health?s objective in adding testing to the demographic and health survey was to estimate the rate of HIV prevalence at both the national and the regional level.
  
  
• Partner Violence and the Implications for Voluntary Counseling and Testing [PDF, 105KB]
  Millions of women around the world face two threats to their health and well-being: HIV/AIDS and violence by an intimate partner.
  
  
• Helping HIV-Positive Parents Plan for Their Children?s Futures [PDF, 102KB]
  Using an approach called ?succession planning,? Plan International, a nongovernmental organization, is helping parents who test positive for HIV to plan for their children?s future before they are orphaned.
  
  
• Integrating Prevention-of-Mother-to-Child-Transmission into African Health Care [PDF, 106KB]
  As the number of infected children continues to rise, threatening to reverse hard-won advances in child survival rates, cost-effective and efficient methods are needed to reach HIV-infected pregnant women to prevent the spread of HIV to their infants.