HIV This Week #79
Welcome to the 79th issue of HIV This Week ! In this issue, we cover the following topics: alcohol and unsafe sex (binge drinking hurts more than the liver: time for alcohol-reduction programmes to join combination prevention in South Africa and elsewhere), test and treat (different results in modelling the impact of ‘test and treat’: we really need real-world demonstration), maternal mortality (Mortality after pregnancy in Zimbabwe: a rationale for starting antiretroviral therapy in pregnancy for all HIV-positive women?), cost effectiveness (early infant diagnosis: can we save money by screening before DNA-PCR testing?; even in the USA, newborn male circumcision is cost-saving), treatment (economic and quality of life outcomes are encouraging but what will happen in the longer term?; the flagship Khayelitsha programme in South Africa reports on 7 years of experience) injecting drug use (why needle-syringe distribution makes more sense than needle-syringe exchange), universal access (what do we mean by antiretroviral treatment coverage and ‘accelerating the growth of the numerator’ ?), reproductive health (if we really want to eliminate mother-to-child transmission by 2015, we have to move quickly now to provide real reproductive choices for women!), herpes and HIV (Acyclovir doesn’t stop HIV transmission but slows HIV progression), tuberculosis (when to start antiretroviral drugs during TB therapy: SAPIT has an answer; one in 3 people worldwide have latent TB: what to do about it in people living with HIV), men who have sex with men (motivations and behaviour: peer outreach with motivational interviewing increases HIV testing and counselling uptake), comorbidities (treatment for chronic hepatitis C in co-infected patients: state of current knowledge), impact (in retrospect, what actually did happen in rural communities in East Africa hit by AIDS in the 1980s?), basic science (why you just may hear more about ‘unspliced RNA’ as a predictor of therapy outcome in people with undetectable viral loads), and structural interventions (how increasing economic assets can affect intentions to avoid sexual risk among adolescents orphaned by AIDS in Uganda).
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Cate Hankins – Chief Scientific Adviser to UNAIDS / Precious Lunga – Research Officer / Tania Lemay – Research Consultant / Paul Morejon – Assistant
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