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BMC Public Health, 2016 Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) due to sharing injection paraphernalia and unprotected sex. To generate seroprevalence data on HIV and HCV among PWID and related data
Benjamin Wenz +14 more
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EClinicalMedicine, 2022 Summary: Background: This systematic review aimed to compare body weight gain associated outcomes over time between dolutegravir (DTG)-based antiretroviral (ART) regimens to other ART regimens, to compare tenofovir alafenamide (TAF)-based regimens, and ...
Steve Kanters +7 more
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Incidence of Opportunistic Infections Among Adult HIV Positive People Receiving Co-trimoxazole Prophylaxis [PDF]
, 2015 In Ethiopia, Co-trimoxazole prophylaxis therapy (CPT) used to prevent opportunistic infections among people living with HIV is the standard of practice; however incidence of opportunistic infection and their predictors are rarely documented in the ...
G, Y. T. (Yihun) +3 more
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BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2019 Background Among all newly diagnosed HIV cases in Germany in 2015, 16% originated from sub-Saharan Africa. Twelve percent of these infections were contracted within Germany and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa (misSA) are diagnosed later than Germans ...
Johanna Müllerschön +5 more
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Preventing HIV infection [PDF]
BMJ, 2005 In 2002 the prevailing view was that preventive strategies rather than the provision of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) were the only feasible way to control the spread of HIV infection. Antiretroviral treatment is now cheaper thanks to initiatives from the pharmaceutical industry and generic manufacture and its wider availability ...
Rachael, Jones +2 more
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Effect of anti-retroviral therapy on oxidative stress in hospitalized HIV-infected adults with and without TB. [PDF]
, 2018 BackgroundHIV infection and opportunistic infections cause oxidative stress (OS), which is associated with tissue damage. Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) is used to treat HIV and decrease the risk of opportunistic infections, but it is unclear whether ART ...
Andama, Alfred +14 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017 Background The HIV surveillance system in Germany is based on mandatory, anonymous notification of newly diagnosed HIV cases by laboratories. Because the time between HIV infection and the diagnosis of HIV varies widely between persons, it is difficult ...
Alexandra Hofmann +10 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Background Immediate initiation of antiretroviral treatment (iART) is a proven intervention that significantly decreases time to viral suppression and increases patient retention.
Daniel Bertolino +4 more
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HIV-positive nigerian adults harbor significantly higher serum lumefantrine levels than HIV-negative individuals seven days after treatment for Plasmodium falciparum infection. [PDF]
, 2013 Management of coinfection with malaria and HIV is a major challenge to public health in developing countries, and yet potential drug-drug interactions between antimalarial and antiviral regimens have not been adequately investigated in people with both ...
Albert van Wyk +30 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background Extra-genital Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis infections are mostly asymptomatic, and important reservoir sites of infection as they often go undetected and may be more difficult to eradicate with recommended therapeutic ...
Johanna M. E. Venter +7 more
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