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From: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 , *...
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From: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...
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From: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,...
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From: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...
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From: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...
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From: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...
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From: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...
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From: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...
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From: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...
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From: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...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 4, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Disease-related stigma and knowledge are believed to be associated with patients' willingness to seek treatment and adherence to treatment. HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB) presents unique challenges,...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 24, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedCryptococcus gattii traditionally infects immunocompetent hosts and causes devastating pulmonary or central nervous system disease. However, this infection rarely occurs in patients infected with HIV. We report 3 cases...
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From:American Family Physician (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe HIV epidemic is an important public health priority. Transmissions continue to occur despite effective therapies that make HIV preventable and treatable. Approximately one-half of people with HIV are not receiving...
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From:Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology (Vol. 33, Issue 3)Byline: S. Bhattar, P. Bhalla, D. Rawat, R. Tripathi, R. Kaur, K. Sardana This study aims to highlight the importance of screening all HIV positive women for various reproductive tract infections/sexually transmitted...
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From:Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION HIV infection is an increasingly common diagnosis in rural and urban family practice. About 75 000 Canadians live with HIV/AIDS, 21% of whom are not aware of their HIV diagnosis. (1) As capable purveyors...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground Federal guidelines now recommend supplemental HIV RNA testing for persons at high risk for acute HIV infection. However, many rapid HIV testing sites do not include HIV RNA or p24 antigen testing due to...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction While momentum for increasing treatment thresholds is growing, if patients cannot be retained in HIV care from the time of testing positive through long-term adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART),...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is lifesaving for HIV-infected tuberculosis (TB) patients. ART-use by these patients lag behind compared to HIV-testing and co-trimoxazole preventive therapy. TB programmes...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Yanhua Yu 1, Xiuying Zhao 1, Wen Wang 2, Hao Wu 2, Ming Chen 1, Wenhao Hua 3, Huizhu Wang 3, Ting Wei 4, Yanmei Jiao 2, Guizhen Sun 1, Wei Li 2,* Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedObjective We used demographic and clinical data to design practical classification models for prediction of neurocognitive impairment (NCI) in people with HIV infection. Methods The study population comprised...