Welcome to the 78th issue of HIV This Week ! In this issue, we cover the following topics: faith-based responses (how Islamic laws and principles support harm reduction), resources/impact development (what determines global antiretroviral procurement prices?; HIV prevention cost-effectiveness: glass half-full or glass half-empty?), viral resistance and HIV treatment (what could happen in the next 5 years to HIV drug resistance in San Francisco?; dramatic decreases in HIV drug resistance incidence in the Olympic City of Vancouver), male circumcision (a tantalising trend toward reduced HIV risk in women with circumcised HIV-positive male partners in a 6 country study; 42 unique bacterial families: everything you may not want to know about bugs and the penis – the effects of circumcision on the penis microbiome (a word to impress friends with)), paediatric treatment (planned HIV treatment interruptions in children show promise in Europe – the PENTA II trial), comorbidity (how a point-of-care malaria rapid diagnostic test ruled out malaria in HIV-positive adults in rural Rakia, Uganda setting), people living with HIV (suicide in Switzerland: a higher rate for people living with HIV in a country with no national general population suicide prevention programme), HIV testing (provider-initiated testing and counselling increases HIV diagnoses in Malawi children; why sub-Saharan African migrants in Belgium say “It’s better not to know”), tuberculosis (what is the difference between relapse and re-infection in TB? Are they different by HIV status?), basic science (red blood cells bind and transport HIV-1 to the nearest CD4+ cell), PrEP (macaque monkeys are protected with oral tenofovir/emtricitabine pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis), and epidemiology (avatars and havatars helping HIV epidemiological modellers: are there ethical issues when they intervene in other people’s virtual worlds?).
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