HIV This Week: what scientific journals said (Issue 89)

Welcome to the 88th issue of HIV This Week! In this issue, we cover the following topics:

1. Health systems and programme integration

• Why, what, and how: an analytic framework for assessing integration

2. Preventing mother-to-child (vertical) transmission

• Kesho Bora: a better future for breastfeeding babies

3. Sexual transmission: sexual behaviour

• A historical analysis of sexual partnership concurrency in Uganda, Thailand, and the USA

4. Dual-protection technologies: biomedical prevention tools

• Women want multipurpose technologies: what is available now and what is coming soon?

5. People who inject drugs: harm reduction

• Convincing operational research findings on opioid substitution therapy in Manipur and Nagaland
• How did China develop and scale up methadone maintenance to 680 clinics?

6. Treatment

• Where to start first in implementing the 2010 WHO HIV treatment guidelines in your country?
• Viral suppression but no increase in CD4 count after starting treatment increases mortality risk

7. Resources and financing

• Public funding trends for integrated condom programming versus microbicides and vaccines

8. Researcher-community partnerships

• Monitoring changes as collaborative research relationships develop

9. Epidemiology

• Geospatial hotspots in Kwa-Zulu Natal: we need to hear women’s views to understand this
• Everything you need to know about what we know about where HIV came from and where it is going to

10. National Responses

• Tremendous antiretroviral treatment scale-up in South Africa but treatment initiation rates have to increase even more

11. Monitoring and Evaluation

• 3 sampling methods prove promising to monitor antiretroviral treatment programme outcomes
• A baseline study reveals that much more needs to be done to protect the confidentiality and security of HIV information
  

12. Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis

• Raltegravir and maraviroc protect humanized mice from vaginal HIV transmission

13. Gender

• What do age at menstruation, age at sexual debut, and schooling have to do with each other in northern Malawi?
  

14. Basic Science

• Learn about tetherin and lipid rafts
  

15. Male Circumcision

• Tangible benefits for women when men get circumcised: decreased human papillomavirus infection and persistence

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Cate Hankins, Chief Scientific Adviser to UNAIDS
Derek Christie, Research officer
Tania Lemay, Research consultant 
Sylvia Béké-Wilson, Assistant 

For full PDF access to this issue: HIV This Week (Issue 89, Feb 20, 2011)