Nuevo número de “HIV This Week”

El boletín HIV This Week publica su número 91. Le recordamos que es publicado por ONUSIDA y contiene una exploración selectiva de información relacionada con el VIH publicada en revistas científicas. Los editores interpretan los resúmenes originales y proporcionan un comentario redactado en un lenguaje que puede ser comprendido por cualquier persona, en idioma inglés. La selección de los materiales, su compendio y el comentario editorial original son responsabilidad de los editores y no representan ninguna declaración oficial de ONUSIDA. Debe señalarse que (excepto para revistas de acceso abierto, por ejemplo, PLoS) los autores y editores mantienen derechos de autor en el material impreso original a que se refiere el boletín.

Estos son los temas tratado en esta ocasión:

1. Cure

• What will it take to find a cure for HIV infection?
• The ‘Berlin Patient’: evidence for a cure?

2. Gender

• Gender equity and risky extramarital sex by married men in 8 countries in Africa

3. Epidemiology

• What is the link between malaria and HIV in East Africa?
• Do biological factors explain regional HIV prevalence disparities?

4. Microbicides

• Novel idea for the pipeline: chicken ovalbumin combined with antiretroviral drugs

5. Stigma

• Disclosure and stigma: an innovative web-supported programme for gay and bisexual men in Ontario

6. Paediatric HIV infection

• Raising the index of suspicion of HIV infection in infants under 2 months old presenting with acute illness in Durban, South Africa

7. Genital tract susceptibility

• Do innate immune responses in the female genital tract help or hinder HIV?
• What are the effects of HIV-1 and herpes simplex virus type 2 infection in Uganda men’s foreskins?

8. Migration

• Dilemmas for the wives of Tajik labour migrants working outside Tajikistan

9. Co-morbidity

• Predicting immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) after cryptococcal meningitis

10. Sex work

• The brothel as risk environment: a structural HIV prevention programme in Sonagachi, India

11. Health care delivery

• An economic perspective on health worker skill mix and task shifting in low-income countries

12. Food insecurity

• Interactions between food insecurity and HIV are complex

13. Tuberculosis and HIV

• CFSW: a new screening rule for TB in people living with HIV in resource-constrained settings

14. Treatment

• Free-of-charge HIV drug resistance testing underused in British Columbia

15. Good participatory practice

• ‘Who is Helsinki?’ Sex workers recommend building research literacy and showing respect in biomedical HIV prevention trials