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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Investig (Lond). 2011 Dec;1(12):1609–1618. doi: 10.4155/cli.11.156

Figure 1. Conceptual model for HIV prevention.

Figure 1

An HIV-infected person can (A) become less infectious or (B) the HIV can be blocked from entering a susceptible individual. We test strategies marked ‘Interventions.’

†Barriers: physical, for example, condoms; chemical, for example, antiretroviral prophylaxis; or immunological, for example, HIV vaccines.

OI: Opportunistic infection; Rx: Treatment of; STI: Sexually transmitted infection.