Welcome to Issue 92 of HIV This Week !  In this issue, we cover the following topics:

1. HIV and chronic disease

2. Young people and condoms

• The Africa Scenarios Project: how young people in 6 African countries write about condoms in video scripts

3. National responses

• The Catholic Church and the Brazilian National AIDS Program: were they strange bedfellows?
• China takes a leap forward with Three Ones principles

4. Mobile phones and HIV

• Are we harnessing the promise of mobile phones rapidly enough?
• Short message service (SMS) reminders for re-testing among men who have sex with men in Australia

5. Diagnostic testing

• Point of care testing for CD4 counts and drug toxicity by nurses shows excellent results

6. Male circumcision

• Kenya demonstrates how the Chinese Shang Ring device for adult male circumcision can cut surgical time

7. Diagnostic testing

• Mini-pooling to improve efficiency of viral load testing cuts costs and can improve access in resource-limited settings

8. Mobility: sea, land, and sex

• Spaces of vulnerability: seaports as hotbeds of HIV in South Africa and Namibia

9. Vaccines

• Genetic impact of vaccination on breakthrough HIV-1 sequences from the STEP trial

10. Mental health and HIV risk

• Depression, psychological distress and alcohol use in Uganda: time to integrate effective programmes in HIV prevention
• Mental health and HIV sexual risk behaviour among patrons of alcohol serving venues in Cape Town, South Africa

11. Epidemiology

• Interpersonal communication in the midst of death and economic catastrophe: is that the explanation for Zimbabwe’s surprising prevention success?

12. Basic Science

• Read this: some personal sexual lubricants cause rectal epithelial cell damage and enhance HIV replication in vitro

13. HIV and health care delivery

• Zambia leads the way with an impressive electronic perinatal record system with unique identifiers

14. Positive health, dignity, and prevention

• Why ABC for people living with HIV is not enough in Jinja, Uganda

15. Health education

• How to reach low-literate readers with antiretroviral information

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Cate Hankins, Chief Scientific Adviser to UNAIDS

Derek Christie, Research officer

Sylvia Beke-Wilson, Assistant

Creative Consulting & Development Works, Consultant

HIV This Week Issue #92