HIV This Week

Welcome to the forty-third issue of HIV This Week!  In this issue, we cover men who have sex with men (action needed now for HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries; HIV re-emerging in high-income countries), serostatus disclosure (when are women in Abidjan most likely to disclose; family matters in China but will this change?), disability (disability-inclusive HIV programmes in northeast India: what is needed?), TB/HIV (the one-two punch of antiretroviral treatment and isoniazid preventive therapy in Rio de Janeiro; how declines in drug-resistant tuberculosis in Thailand occurred), gender (TIME magazine portrayals of AIDS in Africa; gender-specific, gender-intensified, and gender-imposed constraints on impact mitigation: what are they?; Western Cape understandings of gender identities and roles linked to gender-based violence), contraception and HIV (dual protection needed more than ever), treatment (longer lives in Denmark mean other risks; three treatment programmes with stark differences in one Uganda hospital), epidemiology (did the 1998-1999 civil war in Guinea-Bissau affect HIV transmission?; dramatic increases in survival for HIV-positive injecting drug users in Spain), ethics (should new technology override informed consent in HIV testing?), condoms and culture (why wasting semen is an issue among the Maasai), young people (much left to be done in Jamaica; adolescent sexual and reproductive programmes in Tanzania: are schools the ticket?; condom use at first sex predicts consistent condom use in Croatia), prevention trials (what happens when HIV prevention trials stop: maintaining effects in Kibera, Nairobi).

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For full pdf access of this issue: HIV This Week - Issue #43