HIV This Week

Welcome to the forty-seventh issue of HIV This Week!  In this issue, we cover sexually transmitted infections (making the case for Trichomonas vaginalis control to reduce HIV incidence), injecting drug use (reaching a harm reduction coverage tipping point cuts HIV incidence by 75% in cross-border China and Viet Nam; HIV is not far behind for pseudo-ephedrine injectors in the Ukraine ), treatment (a randomised controlled trial in Rwanda reveals why we all should exercise, whether living with HIV or not), resources/impact/development (HIV-related costs and impacts for businesses less damaging than expected in South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Ethiopia, and Rwanda; how much of total treatment costs in Haïti are for generic antiretroviral drugs?), malaria and HIV (read this if you need to be convinced about cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for infants born to HIV-positive mothers and insecticide-treated bed nets), HIV testing (mothers respond enthusiastically to offers of point–of-care HIV testing in child health clinics in Mombasa, Kenya; need for a national HIV testing policy and programming framework in Turkey), private sector responses (virological results in a South African workplace treatment programme comparable to high-income countries; why the public sector has to step up to the plate for HIV prevention in most workplaces in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), basic science (avoiding subtype D – which subtypes make a difference to HIV progression?; what is an elite controller and would you want to be one?), and refugees (transactional sex in Congolese refugees in Tanzania; health protection and promotion for government assisted refugees in Canada).

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For full pdf access of this issue: HIV This Week Issue#47