World AIDS Day 2016

BioMed Central is pleased to support World AIDS Day. Despite much progress being made in recent years, according to UNAIDS and the WHO:

• There were 2.1 million new HIV infections worldwide in 2015
• 1.8 million children are living with HIV/AIDS globally
• An estimated 54% of those infected with HIV do not know their status

As the original open access publisher, we are proud to have made crucial HIV/AIDS research freely available to the public for more than 15 years. We hope you enjoy the resources we have gathered here - don't forget to scroll down for a collection of hand-picked articles.

Not Retro, Just Wrong: Reducing HIV/AIDS Stigma

The UK National AIDS Trust's "Not Retro, Just Wrong" campaign highlights the stigma that continues to affect people living with HIV.

Read our hand-picked articles related to this theme:

Persistent misconceptions about HIV transmission among males and females in Malawi
BMC International Health and Human Rights

Risk of violence in drug rehabilitation centers: perceptions of people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

HIV risk behaviors of male injecting drug users and associated non-condom use with regular female sexual partners in north-east India
Harm Reduction Journal

Ethnic- and gender-specific differences in the prevalence of HIV among patients in opioid maintenance treatment—a case register analysis
Harm Reduction Journal

A qualitative analysis of transitions to heroin injection in Kenya: implications for HIV prevention and harm reduction
Harm Reduction Journal

Substance Use and the HIV Care Continuum

We are pleased to invite submissions to a new thematic series, Substance use and the HIV care continuum, publishing in the journal Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. Edited by Dr P. Todd Korthuis and Dr Jennifer Edelman, the series seeks manuscripts that address the impact of drug and/or alcohol use on the HIV care cascade and specifically the role of substance use disorder screening and treatment as a means of meeting the 90-90-90 goal. Read more about the series and how to submit.

HIV’s "Patient Zero" Exonerated

Our colleagues at Nature recently published the widely-read paper that clarified when HIV arrived in North America, dispelling the myth of "Patient Zero." Read the news story here.

More Articles

From Addiction Science & Clinical Practice

Narrative review of the safety and efficacy of marijuana for the treatment of commonly state-approved medical and psychiatric disorders

Linking Infectious and Narcology Care (LINC) in Russia: design, intervention and implementation protocol

A computer-assisted motivational social network intervention to reduce alcohol, drug and HIV risk behaviors among Housing First residents

From AIDS Research and Therapy

Re-focusing HIV prevention messages: a qualitative study in rural Uganda

The HIV treatment cascade and care continuum: updates, goals, and recommendations for the future

Sexually transmitted infections and pre-exposure prophylaxis: challenges and opportunities among men who have sex with men in the US

From Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Short-term treatment outcomes in human immunodeficiency virus type-1 and hepatitis B virus co-infections

From Archives of Public Health

Undernutrition and associated factors among adults living with Human Immune Deficiency Virus in Dembia District, northwest Ethiopia: an institution based cross-sectional study

From BMC Infectious Diseases

Risk factors for mortality among malnourished HIV-infected adults eligible for antiretroviral therapy

Survival outcomes for first-line antiretroviral therapy in India’s ART program

Defining cognitive impairment in people-living-with-HIV: the POPPY study

Predictors of viral suppression and rebound among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in a large multi-site Canadian cohort

From BMC Medicine

The gut microbiome in human immunodeficiency virus infection

The potential to expand antiretroviral therapy by improving health facility efficiency: evidence from Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia

Is there continued evidence for an association between abacavir usage and myocardial infarction risk in individuals with HIV? A cohort collaboration

Detection of lipoarabinomannan (LAM) in urine is an independent predictor of mortality risk in patients receiving treatment for HIV-associated tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Cost and quality of life analysis of HIV self-testing and facility-based HIV testing and counselling in Blantyre, Malawi

From BMC Nutrition

Do the feeding practices and nutrition status among HIV-exposed infants less than 6 months of age follow the recommended guidelines in Bomet County, Kenya?

Prevalence of malnutrition and its associated factors among adult people living with HIV/AIDS receiving anti-retroviral therapy at Butajira Hospital, southern Ethiopia

From DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Cost analysis of pharmaceutical care provided to HIV-infected patients: an ambispective controlled study

From Globalization and Health

The ESTHER hospital partnership initiative: a powerful levy for building capacities to combat the HIV pandemic in low-resource countries

From Harm Reduction Journal

The impact of harm reduction on HIV and illicit drug use

Drug-related HIV epidemic in Pakistan: a review of current situation and response and the way forward beyond 2015

Pharmacology, physiology and performance: occupational drug use and HIV risk among female entertainment and sex workers in Cambodia

Strategic information is everyone’s business: perspectives from an international stakeholder meeting to enhance strategic information data along the HIV Cascade for people who inject drugs

Comparison of outcomes after 3-month methadone maintenance treatment between heroin users with and without HIV infection: a 3-month follow-up study

From Implementation Science

The impact of leadership hubs on the uptake of evidence-informed nursing practices and workplace policies for HIV care: a quasi-experimental study in Jamaica, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa

From Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Association between Taenia solium infection and HIV/AIDS in northern Tanzania: a matched cross sectional-study

Associated Factors of Self-reported Psychopathology and Health Related Quality of Life among Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) with HIV/AIDS in Dalian, China: A Pilot Study

From International Journal for Equity in Health

Towards elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Ghana: an analysis of national programme data

From Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Food security and nutritional status of children under-five in households affected by HIV and AIDS in Kiandutu informal settlement, Kiambu County, Kenya

From Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice

HIV/AIDS related commodities supply chain management in public health facilities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional survey

From Population Health Metrics

Social patterns and differentials in the fertility transition in the context of HIV/AIDS: evidence from population surveillance, rural South Africa, 1993 – 2013

From Retrovirology

HIV and Zika: When will we be able to end these epidemics?

Paediatric non-progression following grandmother-to-child HIV transmission

HIV-Tat immunization induces cross-clade neutralizing antibodies and CD4+ T cell increases in antiretroviral-treated South African volunteers: a randomized phase II clinical trial

From Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

Correlates of HIV testing and receipt of test results in addiction health services in Los Angeles County

Factors associated with inability to access addiction treatment among people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada

PrEP in substance abuse treatment: a qualitative study of treatment provider perspectives

Adapting an evidence-based HIV behavioral intervention for South African couples

From Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines

Unrecognized human immunodeficiency virus infection and risk factors among elderly medical patients at the Korle Bu teaching hospital, Accra, Ghana

The converging burdens of infectious and non-communicable diseases in rural-to-urban migrant Sub-Saharan African populations: a focus on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and cardio-metabolic diseases

Are you PEPped and PrEPped for travel? Risk mitigation of HIV infection for travelers

From Tropical Medicine and Health

Toxoplasma gondii infections among pregnant women, children and HIV-seropositive persons in Accra, Ghana