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- 1From:Renal Replacement Therapy (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has reduced mortality caused by AIDS resulting from HIV infection. Meanwhile, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease, a chronic HIV complication, is increasing. Antiretroviral...
- 2From:Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences (Vol. 4, Issue 78) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: This study is an attempt to assess the prevalence of HIV seropositivity in a specific infective surgical population a step towards estimating the risk of professionally acquired infection, and to assess the...
- 3From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Sarah K. Wendel 1 , Caroline E. Mullis 2 , Susan H. Eshleman 3 , Joel N. Blankson 2 , Richard D. Moore 2 , Jeanne C. Keruly 2 , Ron Brookmeyer 4 , Thomas C. Quinn 1 , 2 , Oliver Laeyendecker 1 , 2 , *...
- 4From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Christiane Horwood 1,*, Lisa M. Butler 2, Lyn Haskins 1, Sifiso Phakathi 1, Nigel Rollins 3,4 Introduction The rate of adolescent pregnancy in South Africa is high [1], [2], with one-third of women...
- 5From:BMC Women's Health (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Cervical cancer incidence is high among women living with HIV due to high-risk HPV persistence in the cervix. In low-income countries, cervical cancer screening is based on visual inspection with acetic...
- 6From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAfrican and Caribbean Black women in Canada have new HIV infection rates 7 times higher than their white counterparts. This overrepresentation is situated in structural contexts of inequities that result in social,...
- 7From:BMC Infectious Diseases (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The World Health Organisation recommends the use of tenofovir-containing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as an additional Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention choice for men and women at substantial...
- 8From:Future Virology (Vol. 8, Issue 4)Author(s): Sabrina Wai-Chi To 1 , Jonathan Hon-Kwan Chen 1 , Wing-Cheong Yam [*] 2 Keywords * determination; drug resistance monitoring; HIV-1 diagnostic assays; tropism; ultradeep sequencing; viral load...
- 9From:South African Journal of Psychiatry (Vol. 13, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground. In order to gauge the impact of the HIV epidemic on psychotic disorders, the magnitude and causal direction of the association between HIV infection and psychosis need to be examined closely. Objective....
- 10From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Diagnostic disclosure of HIV/AIDS to a child is becoming an increasingly common issue in clinical practice. Nevertheless, some parents and health care professionals are reluctant to inform children about...
- 11From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground While the effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) on natural history of cervical lesions remains controversial, resource limited countries need to understand the relevance of their own data...
- 12From:BMC Infectious Diseases (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The impact of extended use of ART in developing countries has been enormous. A thorough understanding of all factors contributing to the success of antiretroviral therapy is required. The current study...
- 13From:BMC Infectious Diseases (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Zambia's national HIV testing algorithm specifies use of two rapid blood based antibody assays, Determine[R]HIV-1/2 (Inverness Medical) and if positive then Uni-Gold.sup.TM Recombigen HIV-1/2 (Trinity...
- 14From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 89, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedObjective To develop a new algorithm for the presumptive diagnosis of severe disease associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in children less than 18 months of age for the purpose of identifying...
- 15From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
Miriam Hospital researchers pilot new acute hepatitis C screening strategy for HIV-infected patients
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Researchers at The Miriam Hospital demonstrated a practical strategy for regularly screening HIV-infected patients for acute hepatitis C virus infection (HCV), a "silent epidemic" that is rising... - 16From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe analyzed signs and symptoms in 90 patients diagnosed with acute HIV infection in a community-based program that offered universal HIV-1 nucleic acid amplification testing. Forty-seven (52%) patients reported ongoing...
- 17From:Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology (Vol. 2020) Peer-ReviewedBackground. To describe our experience with the use of Elvitegravir/Cobicistat/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamide (EVG/COBI/FTC/TAF) in the treatment of HIV-infected patients in Qatar including both naive and treatment...
- 18From:BMC Public Health (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In the absence of reliable data, antenatal HIV surveillance has been used to monitor the HIV epidemic since the late 1980s. Currently, routine data from Prevention of Mother-to-child HIV transmission...
- 19From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground The level of viral diversity in an HIV-infected individual can change during the course of HIV infection, reflecting mutagenesis during viral replication and selection of viral variants by immune and other...
- 20From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground Pericardial constriction is a serious complication of tuberculous pericardial effusion that occurs in up to a quarter of patients despite anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy. The impact of human...