HIV This Week

Welcome to the thirty-sixth issue of HIV This Week! Thanks for your patience! In this issue, which has been delayed by a number of factors including our efforts to get all the preceding issues on the UNAIDS HIV This Week website, we cover blood transfusion (donating blood for yourself in Ghana: is it practical?; risks of blood transfusion in the USA), treatment (methadone dose changes during ART initiation: what to watch for; a plea for recognition and management of oral lesions and discomfort in Uganda), injecting drug use (Mauritius, the land of Paul and Virginie - and now of injecting drug use), human resources for health (non-physician clinicians: a promising 21st century career!; delivery models for antiretroviral treatment in Cambodia and sub-Saharan Africa: reducing doctor time as services scale-up), men who have sex with men (time to take stock from this discouraging tale of 3 cities), research ethics (women in 7 countries voice their views on access to antiretroviral treatment for HIV prevention trial participants; how to achieve consensual decision-making for ethical research conduct), basic science (pondering the challenges of vaccine design in the wake of the halting September 21, 2007 of the Merck/NIH HIV vaccine (adenovirus 5 gag/pol/nef) trials), policy development (is WHO evidence-informed after all?).

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For full pdf access of this issue: HIV This Week issue #36