aidsmap.com news feed : Aidsmap news - English Many UK prisoners with tuberculosis have a drug-resistant form of the disease, according to a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. There is a high prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis amongst patients with HIV in South Africa, investigators report in the April 1st edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. HIV was detected in the lesions of almost 50% of HIV-positive men with genital ulcer disease, investigators report in the April 1st edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Among adolescents in Harare, Zimbabwe, HIV is now the single most common cause of acute admission and in-hospital death, Rashida A. Ferrand and colleagues reported in a study published in the February online edition of PLoS Medicine. A spotlight has fallen on China’s continued entry ban for HIV-positive foreigners after HIV-positive Australian novelist Robert Dessaix was refused entry to the country. HIV has a hugely disproportionate impact on gay and other men who have sex with men in the US, according to new figures released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Surveillance (CDC). HIV-positive pubescent boys have significantly lower bone mineral content and density than their HIV-negative peers, US investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. The researchers also found that treatment with Kaletra was associated with reduced bone mineral content and density. Pressure is building on governments of wealthy nations to make clear where they stand on funding their promises to achieve universal access to HIV treatment, care and prevention, following a meeting of ministers and civil society advocates from countries with high HIV burdens in London this week. -Delays in registering antiretroviral (ARV) medication may keep cheaper, more patient-friendly drugs out of reach as South Africa prepares to launch the world's largest tender for medicines. Hospital admissions remain high amongst patient with HIV, even in the era of modern antiretroviral therapy, investigators from the US military report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.