HIV This Week

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 AIDS mortality in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; what is the delay nationwide between HIV diagnosis and first consultation for treatment in Cameroon?), adolescents (perinatally infected adolescents in Uganda come of age: sexual behaviour and desires ; a trial of ‘teachable moment’ group HIV prevention interventions among criminally involved 14 to 17 years olds in detention ), basic science (there are two distinct HIV reservoirs), treatment (long-acting injectables: the wave of the future?; why you should avoid insects if you are taking a CCR5 antagonist; how safe is once daily nevirapine?), sex work (condoms and negotiation skills training needed for male sex workers in Mumbai, India; toward safer sex work conditions for women in Vancouver, Canada: why legal and policy changes are needed to overcome structural and environmental barriers to condom use negotiation), communications and stigma (impact of HIV campaigns on accepting attitudes to people living with HIV in Nigeria), morbidity and co-morbidity (deaths due to cryptococcal meningitis may exceed those due to TB in sub-Saharan Africa; a utopsies reveal missed diagnoses in HIV-related deaths in Liverpool), sexual and reproductive health (a systematic review of fertility desires and intentions reveals that health care workers in virtually all cultures are missing the boat; why reproductive health and HIV care services need to be integrated in Cape Town, South Africa), vaccine vectors (lentiviral vectors may prove useful for HIV vaccine design; a recombinant adenovirus shot in the gut to enhance mucosal cellular immunity?), and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (time for nationwide services in Haiti; how intrauterine growth retardation due to maternal HIV can be prevented in Thailand).

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