Welcome to the 4th issue of HIV this month!  In this issue, we cover the following topics:

Reduce sexual transmission

• Delivery of PrEP to populations at highest risk of HIV exposure is most cost-effective strategy
• Risky behaviour does not increase among MSM on PrEP
• Safe PrePex circumcision administered by nurses
• Using community viral load as a measure of impact of HIV treatment on prevention remains problematic
• Achievement and maintenance of viral suppression in persons newly diagnosed with HIV, New York City, 2006-2009

Prevent HIV among drug users

• Declines in HIV incidence and risk behaviours among drug users in Amsterdam

Eliminate new HIV infections among children

• Lifelong ART eligibility increases treatment rates for pregnant and breastfeeding women in Malawi

15 million accessing treatment

• If approved, once-daily dolutegravir could form part of an effective new option for treatment of HIV-1 in treatment-naive patients
• China's national free paediatric ART programme is shown to be effective and should be expanded

Close the resource gap

• Scarcity of funding and well-trained health workers hampers large-scale implementation of ART in sub-Saharan Africa

Eliminate gender inequalities

• High incidence of HIV among young women in Uganda

Eliminate stigma and discrimination

• Despite high STI vulnerability among sex workers in Kigali, Rwanda, stigma remains a barrier to service use

Strengthen HIV integration

• The challenge of integrating Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV services in South Africa

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HIV This Month - Issue 4