Prevention is much easier and better than cure, especially for HIV infection. There is an urgent need for greater demand and greater support from communities and policymakers for rights-based, evidence-informed prevention strategies. To build this support, prevention experts need to speak with one voice, responding in real time with strategic advocacy to overcome the prejudices and political sensitivities that have often impeded implementation of the programs most likely to reduce HIV incidence. Effective implementation of this type of combined prevention strategies requires sufficient personnel to define and tailor programs at the sub-national level, to synthesize available evidence, to manage multicomponent programs for specific results. Quality assurance and quality improvement are very important in behavioral and biomedical
interventions ones. And to succeed, these must be coordinated, efficient, consistent, and inspired by a shared commitment to common goals.