Publicado el boletín HIV This Week No. 98

Este boletín es publicado por el Programa Conjunto de las Naciones Unidas Sobre el Sida, ONUSIDA. Los editores y especialistas de ese espacio realizan una exploración selectiva de información relacionada con el VIH publicada en revistas científicas. Luego interpretan los resúmenes originales y proporcionan un comentario, que no representa ninguna declaración oficial de ONUSIDA, pero promueve el debate y el análisis profesional sobre el tema. En idioma inglés. Puede suscribirse para recibirlo por correo electrónico.

En esta ocasión, puede acceder a los comentarios en inglés de los siguientes temas:

1.      Antiretroviral drug prices

• Benchmarking antiretroviral drug prices in Latin America

2.      Sex work

• HIV burden among 99,878 female sex workers in low-income and middle-income countries
• Male sex workers in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire need tailored services

3.      Vaccines

• How did the RV144 vaccine protect?

4.      Cost-effectiveness

• Integrating HIV testing, malaria, and diarrhoea prevention in Kenya for maximum impact
• Cost and cost-effectiveness of expanding antiretroviral treatment access in South Africa

5.      Alcohol

• Sex for alcohol in South African drinking venues

6.      Breastfeeding

• Increased risk of early death with perinatal compared to breastmilk-acquired HIV infection
• Flash-heated breastmilk for HIV-exposed, uninfected infants in urban Tanzania

7.      Genotyping

• How genotype assays could rationalise decisions about failing second-line treatment regimens

8.      Treatment

• 40% reduction in early mortality on antiretroviral treatment through clinician-nurse support
• Your response 6 months after you start antiretroviral treatment can predict your outcome

9.      Condoms

• 11% condom breakage in sex work in Karnataka, India

10.     Health System Integration

• Why don’t treatment-eligible women who test HIV-positive in pregnancy access treatment services?

11.     Workplace

• Diversity management and HIV-positive employees in the Asian hospitality sector
• What are the health-related causes of absenteeism among formal sector workers in Namibia?

12.     Ethics and equity

• Scarcity, therapeutic rationality, and unfair process in antiretroviral treatment access

13.     Nutrition and People Living with HIV

• Dietary intervention prevents antiretroviral therapy associated lipid problems in Brazil
• Vitamin D deficiency in HIV-positive Iranians

14.     Monitoring and evaluation

• Health system strengthening in sub-Saharan Africa means big evaluation challenges
• Transitioning Avahan, the key population prevention programme to local ownership: the prospective evaluation design