Centrality of family bonds in the experience of middle-aged women.

Objective: To analyze meanings attributed to middle-aged women from their experience in their family relationships.

Method: Qualitative study of the Convergent Care Research method. Gender was used as an analytical category, developed with a total of thirteen middle-aged women from the coverage area of the Family Health Strategy program in a city in the southwest of Bahia state, through reflection workshops and interviews.

Women of different generations living with HIV: social representations about sexuality.

Objective: To analyze the social representations of women diagnosed with HIV about their sexuality considering generational characteristics.

Method: Qualitative study, carried out with women who participated through interviews. The constituted corpus was processed by the Iramuteq software.

[Primary HIV resistance in Buenos Aires metropolitan area].

Surveillance of primary drug resistance is critical to optimize antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV. Mutations to be monitored are defined in a reference list of the World Health Organization (WHO), which does not include mutations for new drugs, such as rilpivirine. We undertook a retrospective analysis of medical records of ART naive patients treated at a specialized HIV/AIDS center, evaluating the prevalence of WHO mutations and mutations specific for rilpivirine.