HIV This Week

Welcome to the forty-first issue of HIV This Week! In this issue, we cover structural determinants and vulnerability (why overcoming food insufficiency is key to HIV prevention in Botswana and Swaziland; income inequality, poverty, HIV and development: understanding and acting on upstream and downstream effects), resources/impact/development (parental HIV: what does it do to kids in northern Malawi; using a shallow rent subsidy program to prevent homelessness among people living with HIV), HIV testing (did CDC consider the costs and consequences of its recommendations for opt-out testing?; why Botswana leads the way in HIV testing uptake), serostatus disclosure (when should kids learn their status?; relationships, disclosure, and risk reduction among men who have sex with men: much still to learn), epidemiology (promising decade long HIV incidence declines for sex workers and men in sexually transmitted infection clinics in Pune, India; the new consensus on survival and AIDS mortality in low-and middle-income countries; Haiti has the oldest sub-type B epidemic and did HIV enter the USA by 1970?), paediatric treatment (synergies: trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and insecticide-treated bednets for Ugandan children living with HIV), men who have sex with men (concerning increases in HIV, syphilis, hepatitis C, and hepatitis B prevalence along with risk behaviour among men who have sex with men in Beijing, China), gender (transactional sex with casual and main partners is linked to gender-based violence in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa), positive prevention (if HIV care providers can’t talk about sex, who can?).

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For full pdf access of this issue: HIV This Week - Issue #41