HIV This Week Issue #69

HIV This Week Issue #69

Welcome to the 69th issue of HIV This Week! In this issue, we cover men who have sex with men (time to act: an innovative study in Malawi, Namibia, and Botswana links HIV and human rights abuses; does anal human papilloma virus infection increase risk for HIV acquisition?; sex drugs and HIV risk: effects beyond drug-induced disinhibition?), biomedical prevention tools (efficacious drug delivery through vaginal rings; the ‘female condom’ and anal sex), behavioural change: mobilising men (Nigerian men respond to a culturally-tailored intervention; South African men respond in different ways to gender-based violence and alcohol reduction interventions), epidemiology (5 years of sustained high HIV incidence in a rural KwaZulu Natal community cause for concern; how data from Uganda’s antenatal surveillance and national population-based survey compare; was there a second HIV incidence peak in Thailand due to the Asian financial crisis?), tuberculosis (survival improves with earlier HIV treatment and care for co-infected Thai TB patients), health care delivery (male circumcision training: practice makes perfect; a paediatric AIDS corps treating kids in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Malawi, and Burkina Faso ; lessons learned about improving sexual assault services in rural South Africa), novel treatment approaches: gene therapy(glimmers of light from a Phase II anti-HIV ribozyme trial), workplace responses (a toast to a pioneer private sector HIV workplace programme in Africa), HIV transmission on antiretroviral treatment (an estimated risk of 1 in 7900 heterosexual acts?; community viral load in Vancouver’s downtown eastside mirrors HIV incidence in individual injecting drug users), communications (22,894 storylines for films reveal how young Africans perceive HIV), blood donor deferral (science sheds light on blood donation deferral periods for men who have sex with men), and human rights (how and why structural-rights interventions should underpin combination prevention and treatment in Zimbabwe and everywhere else).