PLoS Medicine Publishes HIV/AIDS-Related Articles
PLoS Medicine on July 19 published on its Web site several HIV/AIDS-related articles in advance of its July 2005 issue. The articles include:- "A Microchip CD4 Counting Method for HIV Monitoring in Resource-Poor Settings" (Rodriguez et al., PLoS Medicine, July 2005).
- "Achieving Gold Standards in Ethics and Human Rights in Medical Practice" (Benatar, PLoS Medicine, July 2005).
- "CD4 Measurements in Patients with HIV: Are They Feasible for Poor Settings?" (Bentwich, PLoS Medicine, July 2005).
- "Discriminatory Attitudes and Practices by Health Workers Toward Patients with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria" (Reis et al., PLoS Medicine, July 2005).
- "HIV in Nepal: Is the Violent Conflict Fuelling the Epidemic?" (Singh et al., PLoS Medicine, July 2005).
- "Preclinical Assessment of HIV Vaccines and Microbicides by Repeated Low-Dose Virus Challenges" (Regoes, PLoS Medicine, July 2005).
- "The 'Free by 5' Campaign for Universal, Free Antiretroviral Therapy" (Whiteside/Lee, PLoS Medicine, July 2005).
- "The Abandoned Trials of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV: What Went Wrong?" (Singh/Mills, PLoS Medicine, July 2005).
- "The Discriminatory Attitudes of Health Workers Against People Living with HIV" (Letamo, PLoS Medicine, July 2005).
- "The Stigma of Being HIV-Positive in Africa" (Rankin et al., PLoS Medicine, July 2005).
- "We Must Not Let Protestors Derail Trials of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV" (Lange, PLoS Medicine, July 2005).