ECHO Study Results Announcement

Save the date — June 13, 2019 — for this late-breaker session at the 9th SA AIDS Conference, which will include presentations on the primary analysis of data from the Evidence for Contraceptive Options and HIV Outcomes (ECHO) Study. The announcement will occur at 2:00pm South Africa time (8:00am ET).

This pivotal and long-awaited randomised clinical trial, conducted at 12 sites in Eswatini, Kenya, South Africa and Zambia, compared the relative risk of HIV acquisition among 7,829 women who used three different contraceptive methods: depot medroxyprogesterone acetate given by intramuscular injection (DMPA-IM), a copper intrauterine device (IUD) or a levonorgestrel (LNG) implant.

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