A new HIV prevention guide has been made on December 14 in cooperation with the Foundation for AIDS Research. This would help in not only preventing the said disease but it also helps in raising more awareness about HIV and AIDS.
In an article published by AIDS.gov, the new prevention model for HIV was lead by Treatment and Action Group's (TAG) Tim Horn and Jerimiah Johnson, who are based in New York. It was a group effort that the two did to include researchers from different race and ethnicity, teachers, and people who might get the disease because they live with or work with HIV patients for this endeavor.
Basically people from different walks of life participated in this project to put out there a more practical and feasible way in educating the specifics on the prevention of HIV in this era. This specific prevention model fits well with the current HIV care continuum.
Moreover, the prevention model was a lot harder than people think to develop. Its goal is more than just to provide awareness and information but to actually make people be free from any HIV diseases, which is a tall order. It is not an easy goal because not everyone has the same needs and result after a risk assessment has been done to them.
Meanwhile, some Asian countries like Malaysia could take note of this new HIV prevention model because the population of people getting infected by this disease in that country is slowly rising. According to IOL, Malaysians are having a hard time knowing how they could prevent themselves from HIV and AIDS when this issue is not even talked about in their place because of religion.
People doing premarital sex and the gay community have little to zero resources for this matter because their situation is still a taboo. There is even a state where Malaysia's public religion department prohibited intervention activities for openly gay people. This is exactly what the new HIV prevention model would like to change and hopefully this affects worldwide.