HIV This Week Issue

Welcome to the 77th issue of HIV This Week! In this issue, we cover stigma (stigma towards people living with HIV in the USA: time to move from studying stigma to learning how to foster resilience and solidarity; Community popular opinion leaders and HIV-related stigma reduction in China), treatment (the details on DART you have been waiting to cite; foreigners have better antiretroviral treatment outcomes than citizens in Johannesburg – why?), epidemiology (improving the accuracy of incidence assays: an uphill but essential battle to track progress; why has it taken so long to think about using repeated household-based surveys to estimate HIV incidence?), HIV testing (the promise of home testing means different things in different settings, inaccurate HIV diagnoses in Cameroon: a wake-up call for national laboratory directors and programme managers everywhere), paediatric ART (kids in resource-limited settings do just as well on antiretroviral treatment so let’s get them started!; CD4% and weight gain the first 6 months predict treatment outcomes in South African kids: new reference curves), human rights (linking human rights obligations with structural interventions: how much Zimbabwe could do), men who have sex with men (HIV prevalence may be stabilizing in Bangkok but will current programming reverse the epidemic?), basic science (how using an Adenovirus vector in the STEP trial increased HIV risk: memory CD4 T cells with a mucosal homing phenotype got called up to fight and were easy prey), implementation science (what are the key research questions on the impact of HIV scale-up on health systems?), HIV-2 (HIV-1 rises and HIV-2 declines in rural Guinea-Bissau; why would patients with HIV-2 in Burkina Faso do worse on antiretroviral treatment when HIV-2 is less pathogenic than HIV-1?), and knowledge translation (where does the ‘evidence-informed’ bit best fit in policymaking and how can it be more influential?).

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