HIV This Week

Welcome to issue fifty-two of HIV This Week!  In this issue, we cover gender (transgender women more at risk than transgender men in the USA; only part of the way there: integrating sexual and reproductive health and rights into antiretroviral treatment programmes in Cape town ), civil society responses (lessons learned from 25 years of HIV in Europe), young people (parent-adolescent communication not fostered in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) in the Bahamas), preventing sexual transmission (coping skills building reduces transmission risk behaviour among people living with HIV who were sexually abused as children), infant diagnosis (promising results with a dried blood spot polymerase chain reaction test in China; dried blood spot p24 antigen ELISA in South Africa brings early diagnosis in infants one step closer), human resources for health (task shifting in the limelight), basic science (firing up the troops for an HIV vaccine; how do vaccines work and how far do we have to go for an HIV one; genetic therapies against HIV: the plot thickens!), injecting drug use (high time to integrate and co-locate services), country responses (from Chuuk State, Micronesia: a creative HIV prevention strategy on remote islands), prevention programme design (let’s get bundling for synergistic gain!), treatment and care (case management for very depressed Torontonians living with HIV saves money and improves quality of life), paediatric treatment and care (rethinking vaccine schedules for children born to HIV-positive mothers in central Africa; why caregivers are so key for adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Brazilian children; Burkitt's lymphoma on the rise in eastern Africa), structural determinants and vulnerability (nearly 13% of South African educators are living with HIV: what can be done to prevent further HIV acquisition?; sex work linked to food insecurity in Nigeria is set to intensify as the global food crisis deepens), and stigma (layered stigmatisation in Hong Kong will require changes in attitudes to vulnerable groups).

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