HIV This Week

Welcome to the 95th issue of HIV This Week!  In this issue, we cover the following topics:

1. Young people

• Sexual risk for HIV in South Africa and the USA: it is not at all what you think

2. Hormonal contraception

• Risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV: observational data raise eyebrows

3. Sexual transmission

• Men who are primary partners of transgender women: what is their risk profile?

4. Male circumcision

• Uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) in Orange Farm shows impact
• How acceptable is VMMC in traditionally circumcising communities in Tanzania?

5. HIV and older people

• Forgotten key population: people over 50 in Africa

6. Financing

• Is HIV funding displacing malaria funding?
• Cost and impact: why the Global Fund must continue supporting antiretroviral therapy

7. Drug resistance

• Need for a watching brief: drug resistance growing in sub-Saharan Africa as treatment scales-up

8. Social determinants

• Following the Rio conference on social determinants of health, you need this conceptual framework for your HIV work

9. Basic Science

• Competing to fold a protease: Gamers with intuition and skills win the day for HIV science
• What you need to know now about zinc-finger nucleases

10. Orphans and vulnerable children

• Positive attachment relationships prove key to adjustment among orphaned kids in China

11. Treatment

• 56% of people presented late for treatment in Barcelona over the past decade: why?

12. Maternal and child mortality

• How are we doing on Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5?

13. Injecting drug use

• Barriers to access to services for people who inject drugs in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan

14. Early infant diagnosis

• What is the cascade and what can we do to improve outcomes?

15. People living with HIV

• Suicidality: what to look for and why

16. Sex work

• A sweeping review of sex work in Africa: everything you have wondered about

17. Prisons

• A study of French prison adherence to guidelines underscores the need for big changes

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Cate Hankins, Science Adviser to UNAIDS

Derek Christie, Research officer

Sylvia Béké-Wilson, Assistant

Creative Consulting & Development Works, Research Consultants

HIV This Week Issue #95