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Concealment, communication and stigma: The perspectives of HIV-positive immigrant Black African men and their partners living in the United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2015
This study explored the perspectives of Black men, originally from East Africa, living in the United Kingdom and their families on what it means to live with diagnosed HIV.
Abigail Locke, Andrew Clifton, Bob Heyman, Glaser BG, John OA Owuor, Public Health England, Strauss AL, Van Wyk B   +7 more
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UK national clinical audit: management of pregnancies in women with HIV

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background The potential for HIV transmission between a pregnant woman and her unborn child was first recognized in 1982. Since then a complex package of measures to reduce risk has been developed.
S. Raffe, H. Curtis, P. Tookey, H. Peters, A. Freedman, Y. Gilleece, on behalf of the British HIV Association Audit and Standards Sub-Committee   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond the 90‐90‐90: refocusing HIV prevention as part of the global HIV response

Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2016
Introduction The remarkable expansion in availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) over the past two decades has transformed HIV infection into a manageable chronic condition. People with HIV infection now live long and healthy lives on treatment that
Rachel Baggaley, Shona Dalal, Cheryl Johnson, Virginia Macdonald, Ioannis Mameletzis, Michelle Rodolph, Carmen Figueroa, Julia Samuelson, Annette Verster, Meg Doherty, Gottfried Hirnschall   +10 more
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Low-level genital HIV shedding in Thai HIV-infected women with suppressed plasma viral load after menopause: a longitudinal study

Journal of Virus Eradication, 2017
Objectives: First, to evaluate the longitudinal changes of HIV RNA in genital secretions in HIV-positive women with plasma HIV RNA 50 copies/mL in 27% of the participants, and in 40% after menopause. The GVL was
Nadia Kancheva Landolt, Tanya Do, Naruporn Kasipong, Rosalin Kriengsinyot, Sasiwimol Ubolyam, Apicha Mahanontharit, Tippawan Pankam, Tanakorn Apornpong, Anchalee Avihingsanon, Jintanat Ananworanich, Nittaya Phanuphak, Surasith Chaithongwongwatthana   +11 more
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Evaluating the effectiveness of enhanced family planning education on knowledge and use of family planning in fishing communities of Lake Victoria in Uganda: a randomized controlled trial

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Introduction Family planning knowledge is poor and use is low in Ugandan fishing communities. We compared the effectiveness of enhanced family planning (FP) education with routine counselling on FP knowledge and use.
Annet Nanvubya, Rhoda K. Wanyenze, Andrew Abaasa, Teddy Nakaweesa, Juliet Mpendo, Barbarah Kawoozo, Francis Matovu, Sarah Nabukalu, Geoffrey Omoding, Jed Kaweesi, John Ndugga, Bernard Bagaya, Kundai Chinyenze, Matt A. Price, Jean Pierre Van Geertruyden   +14 more
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Is the HCV-HIV co-infection prevalence amongst injecting drug users a marker for the level of sexual and injection related HIV transmission?

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Amongst injecting drug users (IDUs), HIV is transmitted sexually and parenterally, but HCV is transmitted primarily parenterally. We assess and model the antibody prevalence of HCV amongst HIV-infected IDUs (denoted as HCV-HIV co-infection ...
Beattie, Tara, EMCDDA Collaborative Group, Hickman, Matthew, Jarlais, Don Des, Martin, Natasha K, Roy, Anuradha, Strathdee, Steffanie, Vickerman, Peter, Wiessing, Lucas   +8 more
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Access to HIV care in the context of universal test and treat: challenges within the ANRS 12249 TasP cluster-randomized trial in rural South Africa [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction: We aimed to quantify and identify associated factors of linkage to HIV care following home-based HIV counselling and testing (HBHCT) in the ongoing ANRS 12249 treatment-as-prevention (TasP) cluster-randomized trial in rural KwaZulu-Natal ...
Attia, Barnabas, Bassett, Cohen, Collins Iwuji, Danel, Doherty, Donnell, Fox, France Lert, François Dabis, Granich, Hatcher, Houlihan, Iwuji, Joanna Orne-Gliemann, Joseph Larmarange, Kamal El Farouki, Lundgren, MacPherson, Maheswaran, Marie-Louise Newell, Medley, Morris, Mugglin, Muloongo, Mélanie Plazy, Naik, Naik, Nakigozi, Nonhlanhla Okesola, Nsigaye, Orne-Gliemann, Rooyen, Rosemary Dray-Spira, Rosen, Tabana, Tanser, Wringe, Zaidi   +39 more
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Transcriptional landscape of Kaposi sarcoma tumors identifies unique immunologic signatures and key determinants of angiogenesis

Journal of Translational Medicine, 2023
Background Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is a multicentric tumor caused by Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) that leads to morbidity and mortality among people with HIV worldwide.
Ramya Ramaswami, Takanobu Tagawa, Guruswamy Mahesh, Anna Serquina, Vishal Koparde, Kathryn Lurain, Sarah Dremel, Xiaofan Li, Ameera Mungale, Alex Beran, Zoe Weaver Ohler, Laura Bassel, Andrew Warner, Ralph Mangusan, Anaida Widell, Irene Ekwede, Laurie T. Krug, Thomas S. Uldrick, Robert Yarchoan, Joseph M. Ziegelbauer   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vorinostat Renders the Replication-Competent Latent Reservoir of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Vulnerable to Clearance by CD8 T Cells

EBioMedicine, 2017
Latently human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected cells are transcriptionally quiescent and invisible to clearance by the immune system. To demonstrate that the latency reversing agent vorinostat (VOR) induces a window of vulnerability in the latent ...
Julia A. Sung, Katherine Sholtis, Jennifer Kirchherr, Joann D. Kuruc, Cynthia L. Gay, Jeffrey L. Nordstrom, Catherine M. Bollard, Nancie M. Archin, David M. Margolis   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

HIV Superinfection [PDF]

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2005
Worldwide, 16 cases of HIV-1 superinfection in humans have been reported since 2002. Superinfection is defined as the reinfection of an individual who already has an established infection with a heterologous HIV strain. Controversy exists surrounding superinfection, because it has implications concerning our understanding of worldwide HIV diversity ...
Davey M, Smith, Douglas D, Richman, Susan J, Little   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources