ATLA::Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 23, Number 5

HIV infection: options for control.

ATLA 23, 644-647, September/October 1995

Eddie Moore

Doctors in Britain against Animal Experiments, Kirikton Cottage, Auchterhouse, Dundee DD3 0QS, UK

SUMMARY

Current efforts to control the global spread of HIV infection include drug and vaccine research on animals and human beings, as well as measures to reduce the risk of person-person transmission. By using a simple, five-step problem-solving approach, it can be shown that none of these methods of control can succeed and that only the avoidance of risk will stop the spread of infection. Politicians, teachers, doctors, and others in positions of responsibility should therefore be persuaded of the importance of making health education the first priority for funding in programmer to control HIV infection.

Keywords: HIV infection, drug vaccine, animal experimentation, human beings, transmission problem-solving approach, avoidance of risk, health education