HIV This Week

Welcome to the forty-sixth issue of HIV This Week!  In this issue, we cover human resources for health (how Botswana has taken the bull by the horns and avoided doctor poaching; what work force would it take for everyone who needed treatment in Mozambique to get it?; why effective HIV prevention is so critical for universal access to treatment in Africa), people living with HIV (what cell phones could do for antiretroviral drug adherence and HIV risk reduction in Peru), basic science (X4 viruses and HIV progression: what is the link?; your genetic makeup predicts whether you will get skin rashes from nevirapine or efavirenz; can we make a vaccine against HIV drug resistance?), treatment (women at the head of the pack in Africa, Latin America, and Asia; measuring integration of prevention of mother-to-child transmission programmes with ongoing care for mothers and children in 18 resource-limited countries), male circumcision (direct from Zimbabwe and Uganda: the jury is still out on direct HIV benefits for women; does male circumcision protect men who have sex with men?), sexual transmission (are women more likely to transmit in the second half of the month?), and serostatus disclosure (community/home-based care programmes increase disclosure in South Africa; who, when, and how to talk with Shona children in Eastern Zimbabwe about their own status, their parents’ status, and grief).

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For full pdf access of this issue: HIV This Week Issue #46