Combination Prevention of COVID-19

The term “combination prevention” was coined by the HIV response, which for the first-time compiles in a ‘box’ the preventive tools that are presented in three groups: behavioral, biomedical, and reduction of structural barriers. These, applied in comprehensive packages, have the potential to significantly reduce the transmission and hence the number of new HIV infections, to control the epidemic in the absence of a vaccine to prevent HIV or a cure.

The same logic applied in HIV prevention can be adapted to the prevention and protection of people against COVID-19: promoting a comprehensive and combined model has the value of promoting the visibility and use of all accessible tools until a significant number of people have access to a highly effective vaccine or some other natural change in the trajectory of the pandemic. 

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