HIV This Week

Welcome to the 64th issue of HIV This Week ! In this issue, we cover couples and partners (the poor state of the evidence on couple-focused prevention; increased notifying of locatable sexual partners about HIV exposure in the US but barriers remain), tuberculosis (why it is needed and what it will take to implement selective BCG vaccination in HIV-exposed infants; barriers to HIV testing among TB patients in Jogjakarta, Indonesia), human rights (travel restrictions and the urgent action needed to address fear of foreigners; inheritance rights for HIV-positive women in Abia State, Nigeria), viral shedding (lower viral shedding levels of HIV-2 than HIV-1 in the female genital tract help explain epidemiology; implications of seminal plasma/blood plasma viral load disconnects in treated patients with undetectable blood plasma HIV-1 RNA; improve your survival and reduce transmission risks by treating your other infections while you wait for antiretroviral treatment), epidemiology (Botswana’s successes and challenges; what are the blood-borne and sexually transmitted infection risks for Romas (gypsies) in Budapest), male circumcision and human papillomavirus (HPV) (male circumcision reduces high-risk HPV prevalence in young South African men; anatomic site sampling for HPV reveals where circumcision is likely protecting heterosexual men), sex work (how 30 minutes of tailored capacity building reduced sexually transmitted disease incidence by 40% among sex workers in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico), treatment (unplanned antiretroviral treatment interruptions and how to prevent them in Yaoundé, Cameroon; how much does your age really matter?), harm reduction (shining a light on methadone maintenance in Georgia; harm reduction in prison is not optional under universal access; cost-effectiveness estimates of Vancouver’s supervised injection facility), and health care delivery (opportunities and challenges of task shifting in HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa; what is the gist of fuzzy trace theory anyway?).

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