Welcome to the 68th issue of HIV This Week ! In this issue, we cover herpes simplex virus-2 (male circumcision helpful yet again; i nsights on the complex relationship of bed partners HSV-2 and HIV), national responses (the fallout of fragile treatment delivery in Serbia and Montenegro ; sustaining the Cambodian 100% condom use programme [...]
Tobian AAR, Serwadda D, Quinn TC, Kigozi G, Gravitt PE, Laeyendecker O, Charvat B,* Ssempijja V, Riedesel M, Oliver AE, Nowak RG, Moulton LH, Chen MZ, Reynolds SJ, Wawer MJ and Gray RH. Male Circumcision for the Prevention of HSV-2 and HPV Infections and Syphilis. N Engl J Med. 2009;360:1298-309.
Male circumcision [...]
Bernays S, Rhodes T. Experiencing uncertain HIV treatment delivery in a transitional setting: qualitative study. AIDS Care. 2009;21(3):315-21.
Advances in HIV treatment availability mean that the promise of highly active anti-retroviral treatment to turn HIV into a manageable chronic illness is becoming a reality for millions. However the mutability of the virus means that [...]
Escombe AR, Moore DA, Gilman RH, Navincopa M, Ticona E, Mitchell B, Noakes C, Martínez C, Sheen P, Ramirez R, Quino W, Gonzalez A, Friedland JS, Evans CA. Upper-room ultraviolet light and negative air ionization to prevent tuberculosis transmission. PLoS Med. 2009;6(3):e43.
Institutional tuberculosis (TB) transmission is an important public health problem highlighted by [...]
Dolan Looby SE, Collins M, Lee H, Grinspoon S. Effects of long-term testosterone administration in HIV-infected women: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. AIDS. 2009 Mar 12. [Epub ahead of print]
Androgen deficiency is common in HIV-infected women. Dolan Looby and colleagues investigated the long-term effects of transdermal testosterone on body composition, bone mineral density, quality [...]
Nachega JB, Hislop M, Nguyen H, Dowdy DW, Chaisson RE, Regensberg L, Cotton M, Maartens G. Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence, Virologic and Immunologic Outcomes in Adolescents Compared With Adults in Southern Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2009 Mar 11. [Epub ahead of print]
Nachega and colleagues aimed to determine adherence to and effectiveness of [...]
i wish to commeng the research done in south east nigeria and to contibute that it is true and that adherence can be improved by improving the supply chain and bi monthly dispensing. but most importantly, the supply chain needs to be improved to ensure regular avalability, improved confidence and the policy makers should review the dispensing intervals.
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Pai NP, Klein MB. Rapid testing at labour and delivery to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in developing settings: issues and challenges. Womens Health (Lond Engl). 2009;5(1):55-62.
Worldwide, approximately 2.5 million children (95% CI: 2.2-2.6) are living with HIV infection. In 2007 alone, approximately 420,000 children (95%CI:350,000-540,000) were newly infected with HIV – a vast [...]
Altaf A, Saleem N, Abbas S, Muzaffar R. High prevalence of HIV infection among injection drug users (IDUs) in Hyderabad and Sukkur, Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2009;59(3):136-40.
Altaf and colleagues aimed to estimate size of the injecting drug user population, determine the behaviours that put injecting drugs users at high-risk of HIV exposure, [...]
Willard S, Holzemer WL, Wantland DJ, Cuca YP, Kirksey KM, Portillo CJ, Corless IB, Rivero-Méndez M, Rosa ME, Nicholas PK, Hamilton MJ, Sefcik E, Kemppainen J, Canaval G, Robinson L, Moezzi S, Human S, Arudo J, Eller LS, Bunch E, Dole PJ, Coleman C, Nokes K, Reynolds NR, Tsai YF, Maryland M, Voss J, [...]
Semprini AE, Hollander LH, Vucetich A, Gilling-Smith C. Infertility treatment for HIV-positive women. Womens Health (Lond Engl). 2008;4(4):369-82.
Thanks to antiretroviral combination therapy, HIV-infected individuals live longer, healthier lives and may wish to have children. Women with HIV can attempt to conceive naturally or through simple self-insemination to minimize the risk of horizontal HIV [...]
Scheid JF, Mouquet H, Feldhahn N, Seaman MS, Velinzon K, Pietzsch J, Ott RG, Anthony RM, Zebroski H, Hurley A, Phogat A, Chakrabarti B, Li Y, Connors M, Pereyra F, Walker BD, Wardemann H, Ho D, Wyatt RT, Mascola JR, Ravetch JV, Nussenzweig MC. Broad diversity of neutralizing antibodies isolated from memory B cells in [...]
Gilliam PP, Straub DM. Prevention with positives: a review of published research, 1998-2008. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2009 Mar-Apr;20(2):92-109.
HIV prevention education and counselling efforts have historically been directed toward those individuals considered at risk for exposure to HIV and assumed to be uninfected with HIV. In the late 1990s, prevention efforts began to include [...]
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