HIV This Week

Welcome to issue fifty-four of HIV This Week! In this issue, we cover breast-feeding (extended antiretroviral prophylaxis in a Malawi trial helps a bit but more is needed; abrupt early weaning fails to improve HIV-free survival and is harmful for infected kids in Zambia), structural determinants and vulnerability (insights from the analysis of the political economy of sex in South Africa; adolescent girls who have lost their mothers in Zimbabwe), serodiscordant couples (why urban heterosexuals in Zambia and Rwanda need to know their HIV status), sexual transmission and prevention (viral suppression in the Netherlands: initial success is not the whole story; antiretroviral treatment and the genital tract: secrets revealed; Spanish men pay to score…… sometimes an own goal?), prevention of mother-to-child transmission (catching up on the labour ward in rural India), sexual and reproductive health (short-term findings on injectable hormones and antiretroviral therapy: what about the long term?), health care delivery (finding solutions in Kibera, Kenya), genetics (genes and drugs – pharmacogenetics; cell death and genes - immunogenetics), treatment and care (rising cancer rates in people living with HIV in the United States: what can be done?), and basic science (re-energising exhausted polyfunctional CD8+ T cells).

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