HIV This Week : what scientific journals said

Happy New Year and welcome to the twenty-third issue of HIV This Week! Topics include men who have sex with men (it’s the context, baby), HIV prevention trial conduct (the importance of good participatory practice in HIV vaccine trials); stigma (the double jeopardy whammy of ageism and HIV stigma; stigma in health care settings in China; stigma and secondary stigma among Chinese villagers), neuropsychiatric aspects of HIV infection (memory function as a predictor of employment; finding words), prisons (real risks and a false sense of security in Russian prisons; HIV prevalence in prisons worldwide), positive prevention (knowledge of post-exposure prophylaxis among people living with HIV in France; black African heterosexuals beat out gays in the safer sex run-off in London ), epidemiology (triangulating data at the district level in India; molecular epidemiology tells a tale in Russia; BC recombinants now found in Taiwan), internet sex (bug-chasing and gift-giving: intentions don’t match behaviour – but in the healthy direction this time!), capacity building (building organisational capacity and integrating monitoring and evaluation), serostatus disclosure (studying patterns in the French Antilles and French Guyana), reproduction (intentions of women living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada), and treatment (competing priorities among Aboriginal people eligible for treatment in Western Australia; treatment naïve? why you should start triple therapy with only two classes of drugs).