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SPOTLIGHT:

What are Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (MPTs)?

Multipurpose prevention technologies (MPTs), also referred to as “combinations” or “dual” technologies are designed to address multiple sexual and reproductive health needs, including prevention of unplanned pregnancy; prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV; and/or prevention of other reproductive tract infections (RTIs), such as bacterial vaginosis or urinary tract infections. MPTs that are acceptable, affordable, and widely available would greatly improve health and save resources.

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Biographical Sketches

Staff & Consultants

Bethany Young Holt, PhD, MPH

Bethany Young Holt is a Principle Investigator (PI) with the Public Health Institute and is on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health.  She directs the Coalition Advancing Multipurpose Innovations (CAMI),  a consortium of biotech developers, researchers, health advocates, and clinicians working in the area of reproductive and sexual health. CAMI serves as the non-aligned convener and facilitator for the Initiative for Multipurpose Technologies (IMPT), a global health initiative that raises awareness about and support for new and existing technologies that can be used in various  combinations to address multiple reproductive and sexual health needs.

Bethany received her PhD in epidemiology and master’s in maternal and child health from UC Berkeley, and her bachelor’s in biology from the College of Wooster. She has more than 20 years experience working in the area of reproductive health and HIV/STI prevention in the U.S. and internationally, including traineeships at the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institute Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal; Peace Corps volunteer work in Mauritania, West Africa; and relief work with the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Senegal and Ethiopia. 

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Dr. Alan Stone

Alan Stone trained as a biochemist and molecular biologist. From 1990-96 he was Head of the UK Medical Research Council's AIDS Research Management group and initiated a new multidisciplinary research programme on microbicides to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV. Since 1996 he has been an independent advisor on numerous international projects concerned with the biomedical prevention of HIV/AIDS. He was a founding member of the International Working Group on Microbicides, established by WHO to facilitate this aim, and from 2000-2008 served as its Chairman. Dr Stone is a trustee of the Medical Research Foundation, the registered charity of the UK Medical Research Council. 

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