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Immediate initiation of antiretroviral treatment: knowledge, attitudes, and practices among clinic staff in New York City

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, Abigail Baim-Lance, Erica D’Aquila, Freda Coren, Bisrat Abraham   +4 more
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Achieving universal access and moving towards elimination of new HIV infections in Cambodia

Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2014
In the mid‐1990s, Cambodia faced one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in Asia. For its achievement in reversing this trend, and achieving universal access to HIV treatment, the country received a United Nations millennium development goal award in ...
M. Vun, M. Fujita, T. Rathavy, Mao Tang Eang, S. Sopheap, S. Sovannarith, C. Chhorvann, Ly Vanthy, Oum Sopheap, E. Welle, L. Ferradini, C. Sedtha, Sok Bunna, R. Verbruggen   +13 more
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Surveillance of recent HIV infections among newly diagnosed HIV cases in Germany between 2008 and 2014

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, Andrea Hauser, Ruth Zimmermann, Claudia Santos-Hövener, Jörg Bätzing-Feigenbaum, Stephan Wildner, Claudia Kücherer, Norbert Bannert, Osamah Hamouda, Viviane Bremer, Barbara Bartmeyer   +10 more
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Hepatitis B vaccination coverage in Germany: systematic review

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Despite being considered as a low prevalence country for hepatitis B (HBV), some populations in Germany are at higher risk of infection.
Gyde Steffen, Ida Sperle, Thomas Harder, Navina Sarma, Sandra Beermann, Roma Thamm, Viviane Bremer, Ruth Zimmermann, Sandra Dudareva   +8 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, Bukenya, Andrew, Byanyima, Patrick, Davis, J Lucian, Huang, Laurence, Kaswabuli, Sylvia, Matovu, Denis Kasozi, Mayanja-Kizza, Harriet, Musisi, Emmanuel, Sanyu, Ingvar, Seremba, Emmanuel, Sessolo, Abdul, Walter, Nicholas D, Worodria, William, Zawedde, Josephine   +14 more
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Microbicides for the Treatment of Sexually Transmitted HIV Infections

The Journal of pharmacy, 2014
Approximately 34 million people were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) at the end of 2011. From the last two decades, researchers are actively involved in the development of an effective HIV-1 treatment, but the results intended are still ...
O. Singh, T. Garg, Goutam Rath, A. Goyal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparison of an in-house real-time duplex PCR assay with commercial HOLOGIC® APTIMA assays for the detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis in urine and extra-genital specimens

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, Precious M. Mahlangu, Etienne E. Müller, David A. Lewis, Kevin Rebe, Helen Struthers, James McIntyre, Ranmini S. Kularatne   +7 more
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Decreases in Community Viral Load Are Accompanied by Reductions in New HIV Infections in San Francisco

PLoS ONE, 2010
Background At the individual level, higher HIV viral load predicts sexual transmission risk. We evaluated San Francisco's community viral load (CVL) as a population level marker of HIV transmission risk.
M. Das, P. Chu, Glenn-Milo Santos, S. Scheer, E. Vittinghoff, W. Mcfarland, G. Colfax   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The distribution of new HIV infections by mode of exposure in Morocco

Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2013
Objectives Building on a wealth of new empirical data, the objective of this study was to estimate the distribution of new HIV infections in Morocco by mode of exposure using the modes of transmission (MoT) mathematical model.
G. Mumtaz, Silva P Kouyoumjian, N. Hilmi, A. Zidouh, H. Rhilani, K. Alami, A. Bennani, E. Gouws, P. Ghys, L. Abu-Raddad   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Study protocol for data to suppression (D2S): a cluster-randomised, stepped-wedge effectiveness trial of a reporting and capacity-building intervention to improve HIV viral suppression in housing and behavioural health programmes in New York City

BMJ Open, 2023
Introduction With progress in the ‘diagnose’, ‘link’ and ‘retain’ stages of the HIV care continuum, viral suppression (VS) gains increasingly hinge on antiretroviral adherence among people with HIV (PWH) retained in care.
Meghan Peterson, Denis Nash, Mary K Irvine, Bruce Levin, McKaylee M Robertson, Sarah L Braunstein, Rebecca Zimba, Faisal Abdelqader, Jacinthe Thomas, Tigran Avoundjian   +9 more
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