HIV This Week

Welcome to the twenty-fourth issue of HIV This Week! In this issue we cover male circumcision (modelling suggests that reduced sexually transmitted infections did not contribute much to the male circumcision trial results of 48 to 61% efficacy; assessing cost-effectiveness in sub-Saharan Africa), women’s health (no evidence of increased mortality in breastfeeding mothers in Kenya), prevention (a randomised controlled trial documents changes in sexual scripts among women in New York City; need for improved quality in infant feeding counselling in Sao Paolo; prevention strategies among Mexican migrant farm workers; and serostatus discussions among men who have sex with men), metabolic disease (people living with HIV actually have lower rates of metabolic disease than the US general population which has high levels of obesity; searching for clues about glucose intolerance), people who inject drugs (who attends the supervised injecting facility in Vancouver?), HIV in the workplace (you are not going to believe this one – but can porn become an HIV prevention tool in this workplace and beyond?), prisons (the impact of condom provision in New South Wales’ prisons since 1996), child health (confirming positive benefits of cotrimoxasole prophylaxis in HIV-infected children), young people (vaginal diaphragm acceptability among young women), stigma and discrimination (deconstructing the 2002-2003 World AIDS Day campaign; influence on HIV testing uptake in Nigerian young people), basic science (how is it that some exposed infants do not get infected during pregnancy and labour?), TB/HIV (a strategy for early detection of prevalent TB in high HIV prevalence settings) and HIV vaccines (taking a leaf out of the BCG book).

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For full PDF access of this issue: HIV This Week issue #24