Today Thursday 13th June 2013, the ECHO trial results have been released at the South Africa HIV&AIDS Conference in Durban. We thank the ECHO study team, the funders that invested resources into this, WHO that has been following through and providing guidance, to women who participated in the study – whoever comes across them say thank you – we owe it to you brave women!! We must work hard to demand for comprehensive and integrated HIV and Family
The ECHO study found no significant difference in risk of HIV infection among women using one of the three methods. It did find, however, that incidence of HIV infections among the participants was high 4 an average of 3.56 4 indica7ng that HIV remains a signi8cant personal risk and public health challenge for many women in these countries. In settings with high HIV prevalence, a major effort will be needed to rapidly scale up provision of combination HIV prevention services as part of
contraceptive service delivery.
The World Health Organization has immediately initiated a process of updating and synthesizing all the evidence on