Welcome to the 8th issue of HIV this month!  In this issue, we cover the following topics:

Reduce sexual transmission

• Encouraging results of community empowerment interventions among female sex workers
• Challenges in use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among high risk groups in Kenya
• Efficacy of male circumcision against HIV infection persists long-term in Kenyan cohort
• No reductions in HIV incidence yet in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Eliminate new HIV infections among children

• Improved PMTCT strategies substantially reduce transmission rates in South Africa
• AZT monotherapy vs. combination ART for prevention of vertical transmission in Ukraine
• Missed opportunities for vaginal delivery among women with HIV in Europe

15 million accessing treatment

• Improving access to HIV viral load testing in resource-limited settings
• Better self-reported ART adherence with once-daily regimens in a large clinical trial
• Pharmacy records associated with virological outcomes on ART in India
• Good outcomes with tenofovir for hepatitis B-HIV co-infected patients
• Better virological outcomes with efavirenz compared to nevirapine
• HIV care cascade in the USA reveals 75% with unsuppressed viral load

Avoid TB deaths

• CMV retinitis in resource-limited settings

Strengthen HIV integration

• Integrating HIV treatment with primary care services

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