HIV This Week

The potential impact of a moderately effective HIV vaccine with rapidly waning protection in South Africa and Thailand

Andersson KM, Stover J. Vaccine. 2011 Jun 22. [Epub ahead of print]

Concurrency revisited: increasing and compelling epidemiological evidence

Mah TL, Shelton JD. J Int AIDS Soc. 2011 Jun 20;14:33.

Spread of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa

Moodley P, Shah NS, Tayob N, Connolly C, Zetola N, Gandhi N, Friedland G, Sturm AW. PLoS One. 2011;6(5):e17513. Epub 2011 May 31

The role of acute and early HIV infection in the spread of HIV and implications for transmission prevention strategies in Lilongwe, Malawi: a modelling study

Powers KA, Ghani AC, Miller WC, Hoffman IF, Pettifor AE, Kamanga G, Martinson FE, Cohen MS. Lancet. Vol. 378 No. 9787 pp 256-268.

Trends in unsafe sex and influence of viral load among patients followed since primary HIV infection, 2000-2009

Seng R, Rolland M, Beck-Wirth G, Souala F, Deveau C, Delfraissy JF, Goujard C, Meyer L. AIDS. 2011; 25(7):977-88.

A surprising prevention success: why did the HIV epidemic decline in Zimbabwe?

Halperin DT, Mugurungi O, Hallett TB, Muchini B, Campbell B, Magure T, Benedikt C, Gregson S. PLoS Med. 2011 Feb 8;8(2):e1000414.

HIV-malaria co-infection: effects of malaria on the prevalence of HIV in East sub-Saharan Africa

Cuadros DF, Branscum AJ, Crowley PH. Int J Epidemiol. 2011 Jan 11

Biological Factors that May Contribute to Regional and Racial Disparities in HIV Prevalence

Kaul R, Cohen CR, Chege D, Yi TJ, Tharao W, McKinnon LR, Remis R, Anzala O, Kimani J. Am J Reprod Immunol 2011 Mar;65(3):317-324

Adjusting mortality for loss to follow-up: analysis of five ART programmes in sub-Saharan Africa

Brinkhof MW, Spycher BD, Yiannoutsos C, Weigel R, Wood R, Messou E, Boulle A, Egger M, Sterne JA; International epidemiological Database to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA). PLoS One. 2010 Nov 30;5(11):e14149

Targeting the hotspots: investigating spatial and demographic variations in HIV infection in small communities in South Africa

Wand H, Ramjee G. J Int AIDS Soc. 2010 Oct 27;13(1):41. [Epub ahead of print]