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Developing a Conceptual Framework of Seroadaptive Behaviors in HIV-Diagnosed Men Who Have Sex With Men [PDF]

, 2014
Background. Seroadaptive behaviors are strategies employed by men who have sex with men (MSM) to reduce the transmission risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Hughes, G, Rönn, M, Ward, H, White, PJ
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Are HIV smartphone apps and online interventions fit for purpose? [PDF]

, 2017
Sexual health is an under-explored area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), particularly sexually transmitted infections such as HIV. Due to the stigma associated with these infections, people are often motivated to seek information online.
Brady M., Bussone A., Charani E., England P. H., Gkatzidou V., Huckvale K., Laksanasopin T., Muessig K. E., Qiu Y., Thompson B. M., UNAIDS.   +10 more
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Lessons learnt from promising practices in community engagement for the elimination of new HIV infections in children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive: summary of a desk review

Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2012
Through The Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections Among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive, leaders have called for broader action to strengthen the involvement of communities.
Laurie Ackerman Gulaid, K. Kiragu
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History of detention and the risk of hepatitis C among people who inject drugs in Germany

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between detention experience and hepatitis C virus (HCV) status, the role of duration and frequency of detention, and whether risk behaviours practiced in detention could explain an ...
Martyna Gassowski, Stine Nielsen, Norbert Bannert, Claus-Thomas Bock, Viviane Bremer, R. Stefan Ross, Benjamin Wenz, Ulrich Marcus, Ruth Zimmermann   +8 more
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What do primary care staff know and do about blood borne virus testing and care for migrant patients? A national survey

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background UK migrants born in intermediate to high prevalence areas for blood borne viruses (BBV) including hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV are at increased risk of these infections.
Rachel Roche, Ruth Simmons, Alison F. Crawshaw, Pip Fisher, Manish Pareek, Will Morton, Theresa Shryane, Kristina Poole, Arpana Verma, Ines Campos-Matos, Sema Mandal   +10 more
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How the circumcision solution in Africa will increase HIV infections

Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2011
The World Health Organization and UNAIDS have supported circumcision as a preventive for HIV infections in regions with high rates of heterosexually transmitted HIV; however, the circumcision solution has several fundamental flaws that undermine its ...
R. V. Van Howe, M. Storms
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Molecular evolution of HIV-1 integrase during the 20 years prior to the first approval of integrase inhibitors

Virology Journal, 2017
Background Detailed knowledge of the evolutionary potential of polymorphic sites in a viral protein is important for understanding the development of drug resistance in the presence of an inhibitor. We therefore set out to analyse the molecular evolution
Karolin Meixenberger, Kaveh Pouran Yousef, Maureen Rebecca Smith, Sybille Somogyi, Stefan Fiedler, Barbara Bartmeyer, Osamah Hamouda, Norbert Bannert, Max von Kleist, Claudia Kücherer   +9 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, Back, Beshir, Blessborn, Bousema, Byakika-Kibwika, Chijioke Nwauche, Colin J. Sutherland, Dinko, Djimde, Djimdé, Dlamini, Ezzet, Ezzet, Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria, Gerber, Harparkash Kaur, Havlir, Humphreys, Ifeyinwa Chijioke-Nwauche, Khalid B. Beshir, Khoo, Korenromp, Kredo, Lefèvre, McGready, Nwauche, Salman, Sutherland, van Vugt, Whitworth   +30 more
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Pathophysiology of CD4+ T-Cell Depletion in HIV-1 and HIV-2 Infections

Frontiers in Immunology, 2017
The hall mark of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a gradual loss of CD4+ T-cells and imbalance in CD4+ T-cell homeostasis, with progressive impairment of immunity that leads ultimately to death.
K. K. Vidya Vijayan, Krithika P. Karthigeyan, Srikant Tripathi, L. Hanna   +3 more
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Strong associations between national prevalence of various STIs suggests sexual network connectivity is a common underpinning risk factor

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background If national peak Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence is positively associated with the prevalence of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) from before or early on in the HIV epidemics this would suggest common underlying ...
Chris Kenyon
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