HIV This Week

Welcome to the fifty-seventh issue of HIV This Week ! In this issue, we cover harm reduction  (HIV is spreading faster than the response – what should be done?; a Cochrane Review of substitution treatment for HIV prevention weighs in), alcohol and HIV shedding (why those extra drinks could matter), helminth infection and HIV vulnerability (fighting worms - will it ever join combination prevention in helminth endemic areas?), paediatric treatment (good but much more and much better needed in sub-Saharan Africa), female-initiated methods (one choice is no choice; microbicides, partial protection, and the prevention equation), basic science (another HIV reservoir - follicular dendritic cells; how your genes can affect treatment outcomes; can we block m ultiple steps of HIV replication?), health care delivery (where have all the patients gone 2 years after starting treatment in sub-Saharan Africa?; being a woman and having experienced providers predicts better treatment outcomes in Côte d’Ivoire), male circumcision (should we start measuring foreskin length in men?), morbidity and co-morbidity (all you want to know about kidney disease and HIV; how coinfection with herpes simplex virus type 2 activates the immune system and speeds HIV progression), resilience (constructive adaptation in the presence of adversity among young children whose mothers live with HIV), national responses – strategic planning (speed of scale-up and survival in South Africa), treatment and care (evolving disease patterns and patient profiles in France; integrase inhibitors for people with triple-class drug resistance), and structural determinants (sexual abuse rooted in historical trauma among young Aboriginal Canadians who use drugs).

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