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PrEP Must Be Implemented with Mandatory Behavioural Intervention
From a public health perspective, harm reduction is not confined to lowering biological risk alone. It must also address the behaviours that generate that risk. While HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is effective in reducing the probability of HIV transmission, it does not modify sexual risk behaviour and cannot replace personal responsibility or behavioural change.…
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A Decade Too Soon: Uniting Tawhid and Public Health for Malaysia’s Future
Jamalludin Ab Rahman Malaysia is facing a silent but accelerating epidemic. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is not only the leading cause of death in the country, but it is also affecting Malaysians a decade earlier than in advanced nations (APAC CVD Alliance, 2024). Nearly one in four CVD patients was under the age of 50 in…