HIV This Week

Welcome to the 66th issue of HIV This Week! In this issue we cover cost-effectiveness (four HIV counselling and testing strategies get compared), disclosure (test and tell in South Africa; Ubuntu and confidentiality among the Bantu), basic science (glycerol monolaurate is a story to follow), positive prevention (the virus stops with me in Uganda), gender (why bother with younger men: the attraction of age-disparate sex in southern Africa; HIV-positive pregnant women bear the brunt of intimate partner violence in Rwanda), infant survival (why breastfeeding is the only choice in rural Africa; loss to follow-up is a real concern in paediatric HIV treatment programmes), structural determinants (young women and economic empowerment for HIV prevention; preventing treatment interruptions during Kenya’s post-election violence), food insecurity (a trailblazing nutrition support programme lights the path forward; an interactive approach to solving food insecurity is challenged by HIV), treatment (stocktaking on women and antiretroviral drugs; 25 compounds in 25 years; higher mortality among young or unemployed men on antiretroviral treatment in Nigeria), comorbidities (striking levels of anal human papillomavirus infection and anal cancer in women), reproductive health and HIV (strong correlations between antiretroviral treatment and contraceptive use in Mbarara, Uganda; why and how reproductive health services should be integrated into antiretroviral treatment programmes), sexual transmission (did intensive HIV prevention programmes for sex workers bring down general population HIV prevalence in Karnataka, India?), barrier protection (some men do help with the female condom; product substitution in the MIRA diaphragm trial), and vaccines (AIDSVAX reveals another twist in the CD8+ T-cell response story).

To find out how you can access a majority of scientific journals free of charge, please click on the Journal Access tab above. We want to be as helpful to you as we can, so please let us know what your interests are and what you think of HIV This Week by sending a comment to hivthisweek@unaids.org or by posting one on the HIV This Week weblog. If you are reading this through the kindness of a friend and want to subscribe to receive HIV This Week pdf issues by email, you can sign up at http://www.unaids.org/Services/Subscribe.aspx?displaylang=en. If you would like to recommend an article for inclusion or if you no longer wish to receive HIV This Week pdf issues by email, please contact HIV This Week at hivthisweek@unaids.org. Don’t forget that you can find a wealth of information on the HIV epidemic and responses to it at www.unaids.org

For full pdf access to this issue:  HIV This Week Issue #66