HIV This Week Issue #96

Welcome to the 96th issue of HIV This Week!  In this issue, we cover the following topics:

1. Bisexuality in men who have sex with men

• Bisexual behaviour in China: a first meta-analysis
• Lower levels of bisexuality in peri-urban Cape Town

2. Ageing and HIV

• Growing old with HIV: social and behavioural aspects

3. Microbicides

• Rectal pre-exposure prophylaxis (rectal PrEP) trials: A novel way to measure ex vivo efficacy

4. Point of care testing

• Detecting TB and MDR-TB in one sitting: the new molecular-based diagnostic methods for TB
• Effect on pre-treatment losses of point-of-care CD4 cell count tests: what are we waiting for?

5. Faith-based responses

• HIV prevention through treatment scale-up: how Pentecostalism can join the response in Mozambique

6. People living with HIV

• Women could benefit from the HPV vaccine: insights from South Africa, Brazil, and Botswana

7. Epidemiology

• Northern Greece: evidence of transmission clusters of dual drug resistance

8. Vaccines

• Vectored immunoprophylaxis or VIP: a name you will be hearing more often in vaccine research

9. Cost effectiveness

• Malawi’s DREAM project demonstrates 3 drug regimen cost-effectiveness for PMTCT
• The Haiti CIPRA trial reveals the cost-effectiveness of early versus standard antiretroviral therapy

10. Stigma

• Latent class analysis reveals community patterns of stigma in rural Vietnam
• Mindfulness philosophy can help overcome stigma in health care providers

11. Discordant couples

• Risk of HIV acquisition from outside sexual partners by HIV-negative people in HIV serodiscordant partnerships in Botswana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia

12. Civil society responses

• HIV-prevention in criminalising environments: the case study of Alternatives-Cameroun

13. Male circumcision devices

• Safety and efficacy of the PrePex™ device in Rwanda
• Safety and acceptability of the Alisklamp® device in Kenya

14. National Responses

• 21 million treatment days in Germany: a huge database to calculate direct antiretroviral treatment costs and potential cost savings by using generics

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Cate Hankins, Science Adviser to UNAIDS

Derek Christie, Research officer

Sylvia Béké-Wilson, Assistant

Creative Consulting & Development Works, Research Consultants