Editorial
Prof. Dr. Marcel Tanner, Director

Dear Readers
Coinciding with the World AIDS Day, we are happy to launch our third STI newsletter summarizing current STI key activities in the field of HIV/AIDS research and control. There is no need to underline the importance of the HIV pandemic and to stress that the highest burden of HIV/AIDS is located in sub-Saharan Africa. We are all aware of the dramatic dimensions of this key disease of poverty.
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1) Focus on HIV/AIDS

To start and to maintain an HIV-clinic in a rural district hospital of Tanzania
Dr. Marcel Stoeckle
The HIV pandemic is hitting the African continent hardest. The majority of people living with HIV/AIDS live on the African continent. Thanks to efforts of many institutions and initiatives of developed countries the price of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) could be reduced substantially.
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Development of a new genotyping tool for molecular monitoring of HIV drug resistance

PD Dr. Ingrid Felger
Anti-HIV drug resistance poses a threat to effective use of the available HIV drugs. Despite the introduction of HIV combination therapy, antiviral drug resistance was found to emerge with increasing duration of therapy. Rapidly accumulating mutations in the HIV genome are responsible for drug resistance.
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Prevention and Awareness in Schools of HIV/AIDS (PASHA)
Helen Prytherch, MA, RN
The Education Sector in the United Republic of Tanzania is directly threatened by HIV and AIDS. At the same time the sector presents a window of hope for meaningful intervention, because most children and youth are still not infected with HIV.
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Validation of a new surrogate marker for AIDS progression and minimal essential monitoring for HIV-patients in Bangladesh
Dr. Lars Henning
Issue: Since the identification of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) as the causative agent of AIDS, dramatic progress has been made in the care and treatment of HIV patients. Introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has changed the course of HIV from a lethally infection to a treatable disease.
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Prevention of  HIV/AIDS in Central African region
Dr. Kaspar Wyss
On behalf of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) and the Organisation to coordinate the fight against diseases in Central African region (“Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte  contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale” OCEAC), the Swiss Centre for International Health is supporting the prevention of the HIV/AIDS since 2005.
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2) Course Bulletin

3) STI Symposia December 2007 and April 2008

4) Job Opportunities