From: Sandoval, Celeste <sandovalc@unaids.org>
Date: 2013/2/9
Subject: HIV this month Issue no. 1
To: Science Now <sciencenow@unaids.org>
UNAIDS Science now
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HIV This Month. Issue No. 1. January 2013
Welcome to the new edition of UNAIDS Science now and welcome back to the loyal readers of HIV this week.
We have made a few changes and welcome your feedback.
HIV this month will now be updated on a monthly basis.
As previously, we have selected and posted the highlighted abstracts from around 20 of the most interesting papers from the scientific literature to have appeared in the previous month.
In addition, we have asked a Guest Editor to provide his perspective on why these findings are important and where they fit into the broader context of HIV research.
This month's Guest Editor is Professor Stefano Vella.
Stefano is a medical doctor and Head of the Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome. Since the early days of the HIV epidemic he has worked in research, advocacy and clinical medicine and has served in a leadership or advisory role in many of the major international agencies including IAS (past President); ANRS (Vice President of the Scientific Council); UNAIDS (Programme Coordinating Board); WHO (Chair of Treatment Guidelines Committee); NIH (Panels on anti-retroviral therapy principles); Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (Technical Review Panel and Italian constituency); EDCTP (General Assembly).
His research interests are mainly directed towards: the study of HIV resistance to antiretroviral drugs; the mechanisms of immune reconstitution; the perfecting of antiretroviral therapy.
We hope you enjoy his insights.
Coming up in our next issue: A thank you to HIV this week founding editor Dr Catherine Hankins, formerly Chief Scientific Adviser to UNAIDS, now at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development.
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In this 1st issue of HIV this month, we cover the following topics:
1. Reduce Sexual Transmission
· Benefits (and risks) of PrEP roll-over
· Lost in translation: antiretroviral treatment for discordant couples in the real world
· Biomedical prevention: not just antiretrovirals
2. Eliminate new HIV infections among children
• Getting to zero: from option B to option B+
3. 15M accessing treatment
· "Start then switch": an interesting option in phasing out d4T
· HIV / HCV co-infection: an emerging threat for eastern Europe and central Asia
· 15 million on antiretrovirals by 2015: drug resistance
· HIV care in resource limited settings: not just a matter of drugs
· Addressing barriers to universal access: focus on the pre-ART phase
4. Eliminate gender inequalities
· Persons left behind: transgender women
5. Strengthen HIV integration
· Integration of HIV and TB services: a model to shift from "vertical to horizontal"
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Peter Godfrey-Faussett and Celeste Sandoval
UNAIDS
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