HIV This Week

Welcome to the twenty-fifth issue of HIV This Week! In this issue, we cover antiretroviral treatment (good news for pregnant women; predicting adherence in Brazil), evidence-informed decision making (the Thai case study: why cost-effectiveness is only one part of the puzzle), HIV prevention (evidence for evaluation; best-evidence programming in the USA; proximate determinants and HIV prevalence in your bed), voluntary counselling and testing (low uptake in Zimbabwe), basic science (the role of dendritic cells; cytotoxic T lymphocytes: who are they killing?), HIV/Malaria/TB (malaria and people living with HIV; out-of-pocket expenses in TB/HIV co-infection in rural Malawi), HIV research (Africanist visions; research production: who is doing it?), child health (Malawi shows the way), gender (sexual violence in Lesotho; microfinance and gender-based violence in South Africa; migration in China), living with HIV (church goer support in Ghana), male circumcision (reviewing the evidence), and epidemiology (viral resistance in drug-naïve persons worldwide).

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For full PDF access of this issue: HIV This Week issue #25