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• Short-Film Features Oklahoma Prison Program That Teaches Women How To Prevent HIV
  The Tulsa World on Sunday examined a short documentary film about incarcerated women in Oklahoma and a peer education program that teaches them about HIV prevention and other social issues. The
• Singapore Ministry Of Health Calls On More Physicians To Offer Anonymous Rapid HIV Tests
  Singapore's Ministry of Health recently called on more private general practitioners in the country to provide anonymous rapid HIV tests, which currently are available only at two clinics, the Straits Times reports.
• Antiretroviral Treatment Programs Should Take Poverty, Hunger Into Account, Report Says
  Programs that provide access to no-cost antiretroviral drugs have had a significant impact on people living with HIV/AIDS, but they also should take into account the effects of poverty and hunger, according to a report recently released by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, PlusNews reports.
• Human Rights Watch Urges Iran To Release Or Charge Two HIV/AIDS Advocates
  Human Rights Watch on Monday said that Iranian authorities have not disclosed why two physicians known for their work on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment were detained last month or where they are being held, BBC News reports.
• Use Of Methadone To Curb Rising Injection Drug Use, Spread Of HIV In Russia Examined At Conference
  Faced with a "steady increase" in injection drug use that is cited as the leading cause of the spread of HIV/AIDS in Russia, a meeting of physicians and specialists was held in the country in February to discuss the use of methadone in treating injection drug users, which number between three million and six million in Russia, the New York Times reports.
• Presidential Candidates McCain, Obama To Attend Forum At Saddleback Church
  Presumptive presidential nominees Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) have agreed to attend a forum at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., on Aug. 16, the
• AHF Chart Shows How US Senate Global AIDS Bill Will Save Five To Seven Million Lives
  A chart prepared by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), which provides AIDS care and treatment services to more than 79,000 individuals in 20 countries worldwide, shows how the Senate version of legislation to re-authorize PEPFAR (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), the successful US global AIDS program, will be able to save five to seven million lives over the next five years. The program is on pace to treat two million people by the end of this year.
• HIV Control In Pakistan Hampered By Social Taboos
  In Pakistan, controlling the HIV epidemic is made even more challenging due to social taboos related to men who have sex with men (MSM), according to a Personal View released in The Lancet Infectious Diseases on July 22, 2008. Dr Syed Ali, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, and colleagues first point out the disparities in statistics regarding HIV infection in men and women in Pakistan.
• Southern U.S. Not Receiving Adequate Federal Funding To Provide HIV/AIDS Prevention, Support, Report Says
  The Southern U.S. is not receiving enough federal funding to provide adequate HIV prevention, treatment and support programs, according to a report scheduled to be released on Monday by the Southern AIDS Coalition, the Birmingham News reports.
• Column Discusses HIV/AIDS Risks For Black Women
  If the popular television series "Sex and the City" "chronicl[ed] the sexually liberated adventures of four black women" instead of white women, "one of the lead characters could credibly have tested positive for" HIV, Johnathon Briggs, director of communications at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, writes in a
• CQ's Carey Discusses Medicare Bill Veto Override, Approval Of PEPFAR Legislation, Student Medical Leave Measure
  Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of
• Newspapers Respond To PEPFAR Reauthorization Legislation
  Several newspapers recently responded to the reauthorization of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, as well as other issues. Summaries appear below. Editorials
• 16% Of New HIV Cases In Canada In 2005 Linked To Immigrants, Report Says
  About 16% of all new HIV cases reported in Canada in 2005 were linked to immigrants from countries where HIV is prevalent, according to a report recently released by the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, the CP/Toronto Star reports. According to the study, immigrants make up 1.5% of Canada's population.
• PBS' 'News Hour' Examines Efforts Of Baylor's Pediatric AIDS Corps To Fight HIV/AIDS In Africa
  PBS' "News Hour with Jim Lehrer" on Thursday examined efforts from the Baylor College of Medicine's Pediatric AIDS Corps to fight HIV/AIDS among children in Malawi.
• Russia Considers Ending Mandatory HIV Testing For Foreigners Entering Country
  Following U.S. Senate approval of legislation to reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief that includes a provision to ease HIV/AIDS-related travel

<div><span class="journal">AIDS</span> - <span class="pubdate">July 31, 2008</span>, <span class="volume">Volume 22</span>, <span class="issue">Issue 12</span></div>

• Efficacy and safety of once-daily darunavir/ritonavir versus lopinavir/ritonavir in treatment-naive HIV-1-infected patients at week 48.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1389</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e32830285fb</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Ortiz, Roberto a; DeJesus, Edwin a; Khanlou, Homayoon b; Voronin, Evgeniy c; van Lunzen, Jan d; Andrade-Villanueva, Jaime e; Fourie, Jan f; De Meyer, Sandra g; De Pauw, Martine g; Lefebvre, Eric h; Vangeneugden, Tony g; Spinosa-Guzman, Sabrina g</span></div>
• Care of HIV patients with chronic hepatitis B: updated recommendations from the HIV-Hepatitis B Virus International Panel.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1399</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282f8b46f</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Soriano, Vincent a; Puoti, Massimo b; Peters, Marion c; Benhamou, Yves d; Sulkowski, Mark e; Zoulim, Fabien f; Mauss, Stefan g; Rockstroh, Juergen h</span></div>
• Massively parallel pyrosequencing in HIV research.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1411</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282fc972e</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Bushman, Frederic D a; Hoffmann, Christian a; Ronen, Keshet a; Malani, Nirav a; Minkah, Nana a; Rose, Heather Marshall a; Tebas, Pablo b; Wang, Gary P a</span></div>
• Transmission of HIV-1 minority-resistant variants and response to first-line antiretroviral therapy.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1417</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e3283034953</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Peuchant, Olivia a; Thiebaut, Rodolphe b; Capdepont, Sophie a; Lavignolle-Aurillac, Valerie b; Neau, Didier b,c; Morlat, Philippe c; Dabis, Francois b; Fleury, Herve a; Masquelier, Bernard a; and the ANRS CO3 Aquitaine Cohort *</span></div>
• Chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 5-using envelopes predominate in dual/mixed-tropic HIV from the plasma of drug-naive individuals.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1425</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e32830184ba</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Irlbeck, David M; Amrine-Madsen, Heather; Kitrinos, Kathryn M; LaBranche, Celia C; Demarest, James F</span></div>
• Identification of novel markers for liver fibrosis in HIV/hepatitis C virus coinfected individuals using genomics-based approach.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1433</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e328304dfe7</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Suzman, Daniel L a; McLaughlin, Mary a; Hu, Zonghui b; Kleiner, David E c; Wood, Brad d; Lempicki, Richard A a; Mican, JoAnn M a; Suffredini, Anthony e; Masur, Henry e; Polis, Michael A a; Kottilil, Shyam a</span></div>
• CD4 deficits and disease course acceleration can be driven by a collapse of the CD8 response in rhesus macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1441</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e3283052fb5</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Marcondes, Maria Cecilia G a; Sopper, Sieghart b; Sauermann, Ulrike b; Burdo, Tricia H a; Watry, Debbie a; Zandonatti, Michelle a; Fox, Howard S a</span></div>
• Cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus in breast milk are associated with HIV-1 shedding but not with mastitis.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1453</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e32830184f2</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Gantt, Soren a,b; Carlsson, Jacquelyn b; Shetty, Avinash K c; Seidel, Kristy D b; Qin, Xuan b; Mutsvangwa, Junior d; Musingwini, Georgina e; Woelk, Godfrey e,f; Zijenah, Lynn S e,g; Katzenstein, David A h; Frenkel, Lisa M a,b,i</span></div>
• Immune responses that correlate with HIV-1 protection?.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1461</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282fdf625</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Moog, Christiane</span></div>
• Response to combination antiretroviral therapy: variation by age.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1463</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282f88d02</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>The Collaboration of Observational HIV Epidemiological Research Europe (COHERE) study group</span></div>
• HIV-1 persists in breast milk cells despite antiretroviral treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1475</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e328302cc11</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Lehman, Dara A a,c; Chung, Michael H d; John-Stewart, Grace C d,e; Richardson, Barbra A b,f; Kiarie, James g; Kinuthia, John g; Overbaugh, Julie a,b</span></div>
• A combined genotype of KIR3DL1 high expressing alleles and HLA-B*57 is associated with a reduced risk of HIV infection.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1487</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282ffde7e</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Boulet, Salix a; Kleyman, Marianna a; Kim, Jenice YJ a; Kamya, Philomena a; Sharafi, Saeid a; Simic, Nancy a; Bruneau, Julie b; Routy, Jean-Pierre a; Tsoukas, Christos M a; Bernard, Nicole F a</span></div>
• Bacterial vaginosis and HIV acquisition: a meta-analysis of published studies.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1493</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e3283021a37</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Atashili, Julius a,b; Poole, Charles a; Ndumbe, Peter M b; Adimora, Adaora A a; Smith, Jennifer S a</span></div>
• Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission: similar access for sub-Sahara African immigrants and for French women?.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1503</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e3283065b8c</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Jasseron, Carine a,b; Mandelbrot, Laurent a,c,d; Tubiana, Roland e,f; Teglas, Jean-Paul a,g; Faye, Albert h; Dollfus, Catherine i; Le Chenadec, Jerome a,g; Rouzioux, Christine j,k; Blanche, Stephane k,l; Warszawski, Josiane a,b,g,m; for the ANRS French Perinatal Cohort</span></div>
• Serum alpha-fetoprotein predicts virologic response to Hepatitis C treatment in HIV coinfected patients.
  <div class="page"><strong>Page: </strong><span>1513</span></div><div class="doi"><strong>DOI: </strong><span>10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282f7370d</span></div><div class="authors"><strong>Authors: </strong><span>Carrat, Fabrice a; Bedossa, Pierre b; Lunel-Fabiani, Francoise c; Morand, Patrice d; Pialoux, Gilles e; Piroth, Lionel f; Salmon-Ceron, Dominique g; Bani-Sadr, Firouze a; Perronne, Christian h; Cacoub, Patrice e; Pol, Stanislas i</span></div>