A Hong Kong researcher's study of a large-scale HIV prevention programme in India has been published in a leading medical journal.
Dr Mary Ng Tan-hung and her team's research found that a five-year programme which spent US$256 million in six Indian states had successfully prevented 100,178 HIV infections.
She argued that prevention was far more cost-effective treatment.
'More funding is generally put into HIV treatment than prevention,' she said. 'Our study provided support and evidence for the effectiveness of prevention programmes.'
As the lead author of the team of six researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, Ng spent two years on the study.
The report was published in The Lancet last week. Ng also teaches in the University of Hong Kong's education faculty.