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Beyond risk compensation : clusters of antiretroviral treatment (ART) users in sexual networks can modify the impact of ART on HIV incidence [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction : Concerns about risk compensation-increased risk behaviours in response to a perception of reduced HIV transmission risk-after the initiation of ART have largely been dispelled in empirical studies, but other changes in sexual networking ...
Delva, Wim, Helleringer, Stéphane
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Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2000 Lentiviruses, a group of retroviruses that includes HIV-1, have been known to be neurovirulent since landmark studies by Sigurdsson and others, who showed that chronic lentiviral infections could take hold in the central nervous system (CNS; reviewed in ref. 1).
Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano +1 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016 With the wider availability of antiretrovirals, the world's HIV population is aging. More than 10% of the 34.5 million HIV-positive individuals worldwide are over the age of 50 years and the average age continues to increase. In the USA more than 50% of the 1.3 million people with HIV are over 50 years old and by the year 2030 it is estimated that 70 ...
John D. Sorkin, Kris Ann Oursler
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Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2020 Background Emerging data points to a potential heroin use epidemic in South Africa. Despite this, access to methadone maintenance therapy and other evidence-based treatment options remains negligible.
Andrew Scheibe +10 more
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BMC Research Notes, 2022 Objective This study aimed to investigate the effect of heat inactivation and chemical bulklysis on SARS-CoV-2 detection. Results About 6.2% (5/80) of samples were changed to negative results in heat inactivation at 60 °C and about 8.7% (7/80) of samples
Dereje Leta +11 more
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Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2016 HIV has been linked to several autoimmune disorders since its emergence in the 1980s. By affecting different cells and pathways in the immune system, HIV induces the development of certain autoimmune diseases while prohibiting the emergence of others. Dermatomyositis has been rarely described in patients with HIV.
Jeffrey Lederman +5 more
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Nursing Research and Practice, 2022 HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment (H-NCI) remains a common comorbidity, which may affect several key health outcomes among people with HIV. However, there are shortages of appropriately skilled healthcare workers able to identify and manage H-NCI ...
Adele Munsami +4 more
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Adult antiretroviral therapy guidelines 2017
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2017 These guidelines are intended as an update to those published in the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine in 2014 and the update on when to initiate antiretroviral therapy in 2015.
Graeme Meintjes +15 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022 Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a major public health importance and its specimen needs to be handled safely due to concerns of potential transmissibility to health care workers. Heat inactivation of the sample before nucleic acid
Belete Woldesemayat +8 more
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BMC Women's Health, 2004 HEALTH ISSUE: The epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in developed countries has changed from the early epidemic that affected primarily men who have sex with men, to one that increasingly affects other groups such as injecting drug users (IDU) and heterosexuals.
Chris P. Archibald, Marene Gatali
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