HIV This Week

Welcome to the fifty-eighth issue of HIV This Week! In this issue, we cover surgery (time for Iranian surgeons to double glove; what does surgery have to do with the Millennium Development Goals?), sexual transmission (rethinking the probability of heterosexual transmission; the rationale for herpes suppression to reduce genital HIV shedding), rectal microbicides (promising news from the first rectal-challenge macaque study), concurrency (from Tanzania: why it is important to ask both women and men about sexual behaviour; from Nigeria: the need for a better definition of concurrency), drug resistance (17% of antiretroviral-naive patients have minority resistant variants), economics (the rationale for free antiretroviral treatment at point of care; why and how to monitor effectiveness, inequity, and acceptability of programmes or services), paediatrics (high time to treat kids with effective drug formulations; cognitive deficits in infected and affected kids in Kinshasa), men who have sex with men (challenging ‘heteronormativity’ and ending exclusion), structural determinants and approaches (changing the playing field to change the play), prevention (doing better, stronger, faster), treatment (from Cambodia: switching to full dose nevirapine without dose escalation), and epidemiology (the inner workings of the updated Spectrum; tracking HIV’s travels from Yunnan, China through molecular epidemiology; time for intensified harm reduction: Bangladesh moves from a low level to a concentrated epidemic).

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