Blog Examines Potential Of Multipurpose Prevention Technologies To Simultaneously Prevent HIV, STIs, Unplanned Pregnancies

Health Affairs Blog: MPTs Combine Contraception With HIV And Other STI Prevention
Bethany Young Holt, director of the Initiative for MPTs (IMPT) and executive director of CAMI Health, and Helen Rees, executive director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand, discuss the role of Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (MPTs), which “are a new class of product in development that deliver varying method combinations to simultaneously prevent HIV, STIs, and unplanned pregnancies” (11/2).

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