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CSU 113/2010: HIV STATUS IN DISCORDANT COUPLES

CSU 113/2010: HIV STATUS IN DISCORDANT COUPLES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA From the authors’ discussion: ‘Our meta-analysis has shown that women and men are equally likely to be an index partner in an HIV discordant couple. These results ha ... read more

CSU 21/2011: SETH BERKLEY ON TWO PANDEMICS

CSU 21/2011: SETH BERKLEY ON TWO PANDEMICS   The head of the AIDS Vaccine Initiative gives his thoughts on development of vaccines for HIV and for influenza.   http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/seth_berkley_hiv_and_flu_the_vaccine_strat ... read more

CSU 22/2011: HIV DECLINE IN ZIMBABWE

CSU 22/2011: HIV DECLINE IN ZIMBABWE To what extent can the successes of Zimbabwe be replicated in other high prevalence countries of southern Africa? Full text is at http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/5/1311.long Good reading. BD HIV decl ... read more

CSU 49/2011: MSM AND HIV TYPE 1 IN LOW- AND MIDDLE ...

  From  Kenya, Peru, Thailand and the Ukraine comes this review, by a Johns Hopkins group, of the epidemiological and social factors relating to HIV Type 1 transmission in this understudied minority. ‘This scenario-based categorizati ... read more

CSU 53/2011: SMS TEXTING AND ARV TREATMENT ADHEREN ...

    Does this research have implications for other programmes, such as child vaccination, which have issues with dropout rates?    Good reading. BD       The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9755, Pages 1838 - ... read more

CSU 80/2011: BELIEFS ABOUT MALE CIRCUMCISION IN A ...

Westercamp and colleagues write about attitudes towards circumcision in a traditionally noncircumcising Kenyan community. After the randomized clinical trials on MC in South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda, the Kenyan government issued a policy favoring ... read more

CSU 100/2011: TWO TALKS ON HIV/AIDS

Emily Oster examines five well known truths about HIV/AIDS in Africa and finds them wanting. She finds an economic explanation for trends in HIV/AIDS in Uganda.   On Ted.com, at http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/emily_oster_flips_our_thin ... read more

UPDATES ON MALE CIRCUMCISION

Since the publication of three RCTs showing lower risk of HIV acquisition among African males, many countries have begun to promote MC. I passed a billboard in Harare last week showing soccer players preparing for a penalty kick. "Male circumcis ... read more