HIV This Week

Welcome to the forty-fifth issue of HIV This Week!  In this issue, we cover HIV prevention (abstinence-only programmes don’t make the grade in the US; what we know and don’t know about virus in blood and semen; how important is nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis?), basic science and the law (HIV forensics: ruling in and ruling out transmission by phylogenetic analysis), co-morbidity (living with HIV: should you try now to quit tobacco?; psychiatric disorders among Nigerians living with HIV; using HIV health care services in the USA: it’s the drug, baby), epidemiology (what’s going on in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama?; molecular epidemiology in Asia: recombinants galore), paediatric outcomes (measles and HIV: a deadly combination in Zambia), national responses (25 years of public health surveillance among gay and bisexual men in the United Kingdom), microbicides research (keeping a coital diary in Mwanza, Tanzania: could you do it?), injecting drug use (who is doing what in Tehran, Iran), men who have sex with men (you won’t believe this about bathhouse sexual risk behaviour; 61% of young men are meeting that first male sexual partner on UK internet sites), and sexually transmitted infections (time to stop the talk and treat them).

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For full pdf access of this issue: HIV This Week Issue #45