HIV This Week

Welcome to the thirty-seventh issue of HIV This Week!  In this issue, we cover immunology (infected at birth but healthy in adolescence – immune systems fight back but how?; could long term antiretroviral treatment succeed in depleting HIV’s reservoirs?; avoiding the intercurrent infections which could top up HIV’s reservoirs), treatment – immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: fighting back too fast creates an inflammatory storm; which tuberculosis patients are more likely to get IRIS - immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?), migration and mobility (mobility moves foreign policy; encouragingly low HIV prevalence among conflict-affected and displaced people in 7 sub-Saharan African countries - but still much to be done); men who have sex with men and methamphetamine use (providers need to ask to know), sexually transmitted infections (bacterial vaginosis: what would it mean if Herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) facilitates its development?), prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (no doubt about evidence of efficacy - implementation is the real issue now), surveillance (tailoring second-generation HIV surveillance in Romania to ‘know your epidemic’), and basic science (stopping the third major HIV enzyme - integrase; molecular umbrellas: a promising new door opens in microbicide development to prevent both HIV and HSV).

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For full pdf access of this issue: HIV This Week issue #37