HIV This Week

Welcome to the thirty-second issue of HIV This Week! In this issue, we learn why understanding resilience is as important as understanding vulnerability (the role of community safety nets; equity, social cohesion, solidarity and inclusion; and the social dynamics of orphan care), basic science (promising first steps in gene therapy for advanced immunodeficiency; Vitamin A deficiency and supplementation: what does it mean and should you top up?), epidemiology (faster disease progression with sub-type D in Kenya), gender (higher age at marriage and HIV risk in sub-Saharan Africa; empowering adolescent girls in Brazil to reinforce social norms favouring women’s participation in condom purchase and use; gender-specific analyses of determinants of intended condom use in South Africa), stigma (Thai nursing students views of people who inject drugs), mother-to-child transmission (birth outcomes improve in the midst of overall worsening of pre-term delivery and low birth weights in the US; high HIV prevalence among pregnant women in north west Trinidad), men who have sex with men (the challenge of ostracism in Nigeria), traditional medicine (ethical and regulatory issues in Africa), sex work (problems replicating Sonagachi in Rio), women and girls (the mediating effects of mother-adolescent communication on sexual behaviour), partnerships (Roll Back Malaria and NEPAD) and harm reduction (broadening the framework for a successful approach to injecting drug use).

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For full PDF access of this issue: HIV This Week issue #32