title: Toward Development of Enhanced Preventive Interventions for HIV Sexual Risk among Alcohol-Using Populations: Confronting the 'Mere Pause from Thinking'.
abstract: The papers in this issue detail state-of-the science knowledge regarding the role of alcohol use in HIV/AIDS risk, as well as offer suggestions for ways forward for behavioral HIV prevention for at-risk alcohol-using populations. In light of recent evidence suggesting that the anticipated uptake of the newer biomedical HIV prevention approaches, prominently including pre-exposure prophylaxis, has been stalled owing to a host of barriers, it has become ever more clear that behavioral prevention avenues must continue to receive due consideration as a viable HIV/AIDS prevention approach. The papers collected here make a valuable contribution to "combination prevention" efforts to curb HIV spread.
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, 5635 Fishers Lane, Room 2073 MSC 9304, Bethesda, MD, 20892-9304, USA. rfreeman@mail.nih.gov.
authors.forename: Robert C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Freeman
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects*; D019973:Alcohol-Related Disorders; D035841:Behavioral Research; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D065129:Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012725:Sexual Behavior
keywords: Alcohol; Behavioral research; HIV/AIDS; Intervention; Prevention