Welcome to the 73rd issue of HIV This Week! In this issue, we try out elements of a new format and cover these topics: civil society responses (how civil society activism contributed to HIV treatment access in Thailand), vaccines (exciting news about two new broad and potent neutralizing antibodies), injecting drug use (where can you [...]
Challenge and co-operation: civil society activism for access to HIV treatment in Thailand.Ford N, Wilson D, Cawthorne P, Kumphitak A, Kasi-Sedapan S, Kaetkaew S, Teemanka S, Donmon B, Preuanbuapan C. Trop Med Int Health. 2009; 14: 258-66 .
Civil society has been a driving force behind efforts to increase access to treatment in Thailand. A [...]
Broad and Potent Neutralizing Antibodies from an African Donor Reveal a New HIV-1 Vaccine Target. Walker LM, Phoga SK, Chan-Hui P-Y, Wagner D, Phung P, Goss JL, Wrin T, Simek MD, Fling S, Mitcham JL, Lehrman JK, Priddy FH, Olsen OA, Frey SM, Hammond PW, Protocol G Principal Investigators, Kaminsky S, Zamb T, Moyle M, [...]
Hi:
Iam from Peru, I found this new, is in spanish, here there is a new discovery for the csience in VHI,
Do you know about this? http://www.portaldenoticias.com/articulo/descubren-dos-importantes-anticuerpos-para-combatir-el-virus-del-sida
http://www.otrastardes.com/2009/09/03/un-nuevo-descubrimiento-en-el-combate-contra-el-sida/
Thanks,
Olenka
A Literature Review of International Implementation of Opioid Substitution Treatment in Prisons: Equivalence of Care? Larney S, Dolan K. Eur Addict Res. 2009; 15: 107-12.
Opioid substitution treatment is an effective treatment for heroin dependence. The World Health Organization has recommended that opioid substitution treatment be implemented in prisons because of [...]
Household impacts of AIDS: using a life course analysis to identify effective, poverty-reducing interventions for prevention, tratment, and care. Loewenson R, Whiteside A, Hadingham J. Aids Care. 2009; 21:1032-1041
A life course approach was used to assess household level impacts and inform interventions around HIV risk and AIDS vulnerability across seven major age-related stages of [...]
HIV infection and tuberculosis in South Africa: an urgent need to escalate the public health response. Abdool Karim S S, Churchyard GJ, Abdool Karim QA, Lawn SD. Lancet 2009; 374: 921-33.
One of the greatest challenges facing post-apartheid South Africa is the control of the concomitant HIV and tuberculosis epidemics. HIV continues [...]
Thanx for the valuable information. what response did u get in denmark? Please provide information over it. Provide links to related topics if possible.
Men who have sex with men and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Smith AD, Tapsoba P, Peshu N, Sanders EJ, Jaffe H. Lancet. 2009;374: 416-422.
Globally, men who have sex with men continue to bear a high burden of HIV infection. In sub-Saharan Africa, same-sex behaviours have been largely neglected by HIV research [...]
Scaleable manufacture of HIV-1 entry inhibitor griffithsin and validation of its safety and efficacy as a topical microbicide component. O’Keefe BR, Vojdani F, Buffa V, Shattock RJ, Montefiori DC, Bakke J, Mirsalis J, d’Andrea AL, Hume SD, Bratcher B, Saucedo CJ, McMahon JB, Pogue GP, Palmer KE. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009; [...]
Health workers’ views on quality of prevention of mother-to-child transmission and postnatal care for HIV-infected women and their children. Nguyen TA, Oosterhoff P, Pham YN, Hardon A, Wright P. Hum Resour Health. 2009;13;7:39.
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission has been considered as not a simple intervention but a comprehensive set of interventions requiring capable health workers. [...]
Role of widows in the heterosexual transmission of HIV in Manicaland, Zimbabwe, 1998-2003. Lopman BA, Nyamukapa C, Hallett TB, Mushati P, Spark-du Preez N, Kurwa F, Wambe M, Gregson S. Sex Transm Infect. 2009 85 Suppl 1:i41-8.
AIDS is the main driver of young widowhood in southern Africa. The demographic characteristics of widows, their reported [...]
Population immunity to measles virus and the effect of HIV-1 infection after a mass measles vaccination campaign in Lusaka, Zambia: a cross-sectional survey. Lowther SA, Curriero FC, Kalish BT, Shields TM, Monze M, Moss WJ. Lancet 2009; 373: 1025-32.
Measles control efforts are hindered by challenges in sustaining high vaccination coverage, waning immunity in HIV-1-infected children, [...]
My son is HIV positive and has no immunity to chickenpox, every year he gets it and in the worst senarios has been diagnosed as having chicken pox on his arms and legs and measles on his torso. If the school informs me quickly enough I can take him to be vacinated and he remains well. I am extremely interested in any comments of experience in mainly childhood sicknesses and the effect HIV has on them. I also am interested in knowing if HIV children non-disclosed are more likely to be challenging in thier behavior- distructive and obusive????
Henry from Scotland
A Tale of Two Countries: HIV Among Core Groups in Togo. Sobéla F, Pépin J, Gbéléou S, Banla AK, Pitche VP, Adom W, Sodji D, Frost E, Deslandes S, Labbé AC. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2009 51: 216-23.
Sobéla and colleagues set out to describe the epidemiology of HIV among core groups in Togo. The [...]
Changing global essential medicines norms to improve access to AIDS treatment: lessons from Brazil. Nunn A, Fonseca ED, Gruskin S. Glob Public Health. 2009;4:131-49.
Brazil ’s large-scale, successful HIV treatment programme is considered by many to be a model for other developing countries aiming to improve access to HIV treatment. Far less is known about Brazil’s [...]
Welcome to the 72nd issue of HIV This Week! Many thanks to all of you who completed our recent survey. You gave us excellent suggestions for improvements and we will be introducing a number of changes in upcoming issues. In this issue, we cover monitoring and evaluation (how burial surveillance revealed steep declines in population-level [...]
Reniers G, Araya T, Davey G, Nagelkerke N, Berhane Y, Coutinho R, Sanders EJ. Steep declines in population-level AIDS mortality following the introduction of antiretroviral therapy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. AIDS. 2009;23:511-518.
Assessments of population-level effects of antiretroviral therapy programmes in Africa are rare. Reniers and colleagues use data from burial sites to estimate trends [...]
2 Comments
November 5th, 2009 at 1:20 am
I would love to see an article with brief updates on all vaccine research going on around the world. You see lots of individual articles but it’s difficult to get the whole picture.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Excellent Blog showing for the helping the people of what they think about the AIDS. This will definitely create the awareness among the people. -