title: Managing HIV. Part 8: Controlling an epidemic. 8.2 HIV prevention in the community: sexual transmission.
abstract: Preventing sexual transmission is the key to containing the HIV epidemic, and the key to prevention is in the positive promotion of safer sexual behaviours: using condoms and avoiding unprotected penetrative sex. Doctors can play a vital public health role by providing frank advice.
authors.affiliation: Peninsula and Torres Strait Regional Health Authority, Cairns, QLD.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bradford
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kippax
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baxter
mesh_terms: D018563:Disease Notification; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D012725:Sexual Behavior