HIV This Week

Welcome to issue fifty-three of HIV This Week!  In this issue, we cover pre-exposure prophylaxis (it works in macaques but would you inject yourself daily or before sex to prevent HIV?) , blood borne transmission (debunking the tetanus toxoid injection – HIV link in 7 African countries; penile modification in young Thai men: get ready to be surprised), epidemiology (‘Rhodes or roads’ at the heart of the HIV epidemic in southern Africa; the rising HIV disease burden in Uganda), education (time to act: time trends reveal reversal with less education increasing HIV risk), basic science (the CCR5-Delta32 HIV resistance allele is a new explanation for low HIV prevalence in Tunisia; what on earth are membrane nanotubes?), herpes simplex virus-2 (20 th century genital herpes likely kick-started the HIV epidemic in Africa), impact on society (grandmothers' productivity is a force to be reckoned with in Botswana; increased tea plucking days on antiretroviral treatment in Kenya), treatment and care (it’s better to be young when you start on antiretroviral treatment; standard ‘2 nukes – 1 non-nuke’ first-line regimens are cost-effective and work longer), mortality trends (population mortality starts falling within months of introduction of antiretroviral treatment in Malawi), discordant couples (a prevention imperative: at 12 sites in eastern and southern Africa, 49% of couples with HIV are discordant), male circumcision (modelling the impact of male circumcision on women as well as men), and drug resistance surveillance (what is threshold survey analysis?; tracking early warning indicators in Malawi).

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