HIV This Week

Welcome to the maiden issue of HIV this week, our regular weekly update on HIV coverage in the scientific literature. Since 2002 we have collated and circulated tables of contents from scientific journals weekly and then retrieved the articles that UNAIDS staff members in the former Strategic Information Unit were keen to read. After consultation with a number of you, we have decided to expand this service to all staff and to make it more user friendly by selecting a few relevant scientific abstracts each week. The thematic areas covered in this week’s HIV scientific literature cover universal access, behaviour change, condom use, costing and resource needs, epidemiological estimates and projections, male circumcision, men who have sex with men, microbicides, treatment, reproductive health, and vaccines.

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Don’t forget that you can find a wealth of information on the HIV epidemic and responses to it at http://www.unaids.org.