Integrated Care Delivery Model of HIV Prevention and Treatment Targeting Adolescent Girls in Zambia
In collaboration with the Zambian Ministry of Health, RTI International, and the University of North Carolina (UNC), the Council is conducting a study [...]
Dapivirine Vaginal Ring price drops by over 50%, bringing more affordable HIV prevention options to women and adolescent girls in Africa and beyond
Population Council subsidy reduces price of one-month Dapivirine Vaginal Ring (DVR) to $5.90 per ring, a major reduction from current selling price of [...]
5th HIV Research for Prevention Conference (HIVR4P 2024)
HIV R4P is the only global scientific conference focused exclusively on the challenging and fast-growing field of HIV prevention research. This conference fosters interdisciplinary [...]
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Reducing Stigma and Increasing Access to HIV and Sexual Health Services among MSM and Transgender Persons in Nigeria
We worked alongside two local community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide comprehensive HIV, sexual and reproductive health, and other support services to men who [...]
Alternative models of delivery for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) services for Black Adults in Washington, DC: Community-based PrEP and Pharmacy-based PrEP
In collaboration with the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and community-based HIV services organization Us Helping Us, People Into Living Inc., Council researchers [...]
Developing and Testing a Griffithsin (non-ARV) Microbicide
The Population Council has been a leader in research on and development of microbicides since the 1990s. Today, we are developing user-controlled prevention [...]
Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Choices
The Population Council tackles intersecting inequalities that undermine rights and access to contraception, HIV and STI prevention, maternal and newborn health, safe abortion, [...]
Examining the Evidence for Contraceptive Options and HIV Outcomes (ECHO) Study
The Population Council welcomes publication of the Evidence for Contraceptive Options and HIV Outcomes (ECHO) study. We congratulate the trial organizers and appreciate [...]
First Multipurpose Gel Designed to Prevent HIV, HSV, and HPV Simultaneously in Women and Men Advances in Clinical Trials
June 21, 2018—A new Phase I study of the Population Council’s multipurpose prevention technology (MPT) gel PC-1005, launching this week, will examine the [...]
Population Council Advances Non-Antiretroviral Multipurpose Prevention Technology For HIV and STI Prevention to Clinical Trial
October 12, 2017—The Population Council today announced the enrollment of the first participant in the Phase I clinical trial evaluating PC-6500 (griffithsin in [...]
Zambia
Since 1994, the Population Council has been a driving force in Zambia, expanding its operations in 2009 to support country-wide research on HIV [...]