Welcome to the 90th issue of HIV This Week ! In this issue, we cover the following topics:
1. Civil society responses
2. Condoms
3. HIV and maternal mortality
4. Host genetics
5. HIV Prevention trials
6. Discordant couples
7. Treatment outcomes
8. Gender
9. Basic science
10. National responses
11. People who inject drugs
12. Preventing vertical transmission
13. Men who have sex with men
14. Ethics
15. Microbicides
16. Nutrition
17. Comorbidities, tuberculosis
18. Child-led microfinance
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Cate Hankins, Chief Scientific Adviser to UNAIDS
Derek Christie, Research officer
Tania Lemay, Research consultant
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