HIV This Week

Welcome to the 59 th issue of HIV This Week! In this issue, we cover morbidity and comorbidity (how infecting guinea pigs reinforces the need for environmental modifications to prevent tuberculosis in humans; should treatment for Ascaris lumbricoides, the worm that has befriended 1.5 billion people, become routine in HIV care in helminth-endemic areas?), gender (actions to end economic violence to women and girls; spicy food as a dubious HIV prevention measure in Burkina Faso), HIV in the workplace (improving workplace HIV governance in small- and medium-sized enterprises in South Africa), treatment as prevention (treatment as prevention could work if condom use is maintained; population level effects of expanding treatment access in the context of comprehensive HIV prevention in British Columbia), HIV testing (where a child lives in Malawi and what season it is affects HIV prevalence: how HIV testing could benefit severely malnourished children), epidemiology (how much HIV is there in African militaries?; HIV prevalence, migration, and deportation in injecting drug users in Tijuana, Mexico), basic science (some HIV-exposed, non-infected infants in Kenya show evidence of immune responses in saliva; what is TRAIL and how might it help?; could acyclovir become a reverse transcriptase inhibitor in people with herpes viruses), prevention of mother-to-child transmission (why teen mothers in Limpopo Province, South Africa avoid services; why women in Zimbabwe can’t access services; why we need to learn whether suppressive treatment of herpes simplex virus type 2 coinfection in pregnant women could decrease HIV mother-to–child transmission), male circumcision (overall equivalent safety of male circumcision in healthy HIV-positive and HIV-negative men in Rakai, Uganda but reason to abstain: early postoperative sex delays wound healing), healthcare delivery (time for joint action: what biomedical and traditional health care providers in Zambia have in common; concerted, collaborative work on reproductive health in complex emergences brings results), and country responses (lessons learned about antiretroviral treatment scale-up in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana).

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HIV This Week Issue #59