HIV This Week

Welcome to the fortieth issue of HIV This Week!  In this issue, we cover HIV testing (how accurate are HIV tests in Tanzania?; what needs to change: perspectives from people living with HIV; how bad can self-testing get?; paediatric diagnosis through dried blood spot testing for total nucleic acids in Uganda and Cameroon), sexual minorities ('Are you on the market?': how many men sell sex to men in Mombasa, Kenya; why women injectors in the USA who have sex with women are at higher risk of HIV exposure), TB/HIV (Vietnam shows why co-trimoxazole should be prescribed at TB diagnosis when HIV co-infection is likely), stigma and social exclusion (unwillingness to accept a family member living with HIV is as high as 40% in Karnataka, India), people living with HIV (reproductive choices, sperm washing and other strategies to reduce parent-to-child transmission; design of a randomised controlled trial of increased access to housing for homeless and unstably housed people living with HIV; parenthood: the couple as the unit of care, mother-to-child transmission (unlinked testing of 6 week old babies in KwaZulu Natal: mothers who don’t think they are infected have high rates of transmission; how does prophylaxis work?; inactivating HIV in breast milk by flash-heat: how to do it?), treatment (conserving first-line antiretroviral treatment regimens in South Africa), gender (HIV and intimate partner violence in the USA; the political economy of marriage and HIV in Uganda), epidemiology (mobility and HIV in Russia: need for some macro thinking), and research (adolescents in HIV vaccine trials: why, how and when) .

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For full pdf access of this issue: HIV This Week issue #40