HIV This Week

Welcome to the fifty-fifth issue of HIV This Week! In this issue, we cover risk compensation (since it’s all about psychology, we need to think about how to influence risk set points and mindsets; the resurgent HIV-1 epidemic among men who have sex with men in the Netherlands: time to take a step back to the old days), migration (boatmen as a bridging population between Myanmar and Bangladesh), highly exposed persistent seronegative people (some call them HEPS for short: highly fascinating individuals whose immune systems hold secrets we need to know) cost-effectiveness (cotrimoxazole prophylaxis in Zambian children with HIV infection: what more is needed to influence decision-making across sub-Saharan Africa?; one part of the equation in Andhra Pradesh but where does fertility planning fit in?), treatment (township South Africa and Switzerland compare favourably except for early mortality but there are lessons for both; another frontier for dried blood spots: HIV-1 drug resistance genotyping), male circumcision (high acceptability among predominantly Hindu mothers in Mysore, India), transgendered women (high time to address structural barriers to formal employment while reducing health risks), basic science (immune activation causes disease progression; long-lived reservoirs are a safe harbour for HIV), epidemiology (place trumps in the risk stakes in Tanzania; the puzzle of HIV-2 in Bissau; striking disease burden in Nairobi slums), and herpes simplex virus-2 (two trials find HSV-2 suppression in HIV-negative people does not reduce HIV risk).

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