Community reports

1 June 2016. Related: On the web.

RITA: HIV and smoking

The most recent issue of RITA from the Center for AIDS in Houston is on HIV and smoking.

http://centerforaids.org/pdfs/rita0116.pdf (PDF)

This issue includes three main articles.

An interview with Jonathan Shuter on motivating and helping HIV positive smokers to quit, including discussion of his innovative online quitting program, PositivelySmokeFreeMe.
A review article analyzing smoke-ending strategies in people with HIV.
A review article summarizing the impact of smoking on health of HIV-positive people and how that impact differs from smoking’s effect in the general population.

The issue also includes two 2-page summaries: “Ten things every HIV positive smoker should know” and “Ten things every HIV clinician should know about smoking.”

HIV criminalisation

A new report “Advancing HIV Justice 2” shows that HIV criminalisation is a growing, global phenomenon.

However, advocates around the world are working hard to ensure that the criminal law’s approach to people living with HIV fits with up-to-date science, as well as key legal and human rights principles.

http://www.hivjustice.net/news/new-report-shows-hiv-criminalisation-is-growing-global-problem-but-advocates-are-fighting-back

http://www.hivjustice.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/AHJ2.final2_.10May2016.pdf (PDF)