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Racism, African American Women, and Their Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Review of Historical and Contemporary Evidence and Implications for Health Equity

Health Equity, 2018
Background: The sexual and reproductive health of African American women has been compromised due to multiple experiences of racism, including discriminatory healthcare practices from slavery through the post-Civil Rights era.
Cynthia Prather, Taleria R. Fuller, William L. Jeffries, Khiya J. Marshall, A. Vyann Howell, Angela Belyue-Umole, Winifred King   +6 more
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The art of HIV elimination: past and present science [PDF]

, 2015
Introduction: Remarkable strides have been made in controlling the HIV epidemic, although not enough to achieve epidemic control. More recently, interest in biomedical HIV control approaches has increased, but substantial challenges with the HIV cascade ...
de Oliveira, T., Fisher, M., Lwuji, C.C., McGrath, N., Newell, M.-L., Newport, M., Pillay, D., Porter, K.   +7 more
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Prevention Counseling Practices of HIV Care Providers with Patients New to HIV Medical Care

Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, 2014
Objectives: To determine the prevalence of prevention counseling discussions between HIV care providers and their patients who are newly linked to care and to assess factors that facilitate such discussions.
Eduardo Valverde MPH, Linda Beer PhD, Christopher Johnson MS, Janet M. Blair PhD, Christine L. Mattson PhD, Catherine Sanders MS, John Weiser MD, Jacek Skarbinski MD   +7 more
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Addressing Vulnerable Population Needs in the Last Mile to the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV: (Re)Claiming the HIV Response for Female Sex Workers and Their Children

BMC Public Health, 2020
As countries strive to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, female sex workers (FSW) and their children still face barriers to accessing these essential services.
Avi J. Hakim, Tegan Callahan, Irene Benech, Monita Patel, Michelle Adler, Surbhi Modi, Moses Bateganya, Kae Anne Parris, Trista Bingham   +8 more
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Natural selection favoring more transmissible HIV detected in United States molecular transmission network

Nature Communications, 2019
Here, the authors use a molecular epidemiological approach to investigate the frequency and intensity of clustering of HIV with different set-point viral loads and find that frequently transmitted strains in genetic transmission clusters have ...
Joel O. Wertheim, Alexandra M. Oster, William M. Switzer, Chenhua Zhang, Nivedha Panneer, Ellsworth Campbell, Neeraja Saduvala, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Walid Heneine   +8 more
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Uptake of home-based voluntary HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2012
Improving access to HIV testing is a key priority in scaling up HIV treatment and prevention services. Home-based voluntary counselling and testing (HBT) as an approach to delivering wide-scale HIV testing is explored ...
AM Molesworth, AT Choko, B Wolff, C Michelo, DF Stroup, E Lugada, E Tumwesigye, EJ Mills, EL Corbett, F Nuwaha, F Obare, FG Felley, G Rucker, H Maheswaran, I Ganguli, J Negin, J Wachira, JK Matovu, JK Matovu, JK Matovu, JM Turan, JN Sekandi, K Kranzer, Kalpana Sabapathy, KL Grabbe, KM De Cock, M Freeman, M May, M Sweat, N Angotti, N Menzies, Nathan Ford, O Shisana, P Braitstein, P Cherutich, P Macpherson, R Hayes, Rafael Van den Bergh, RC Vreeman, Richard Hayes, RM Granich, RP Walensky, S Helleringer, S Kimaiyo, Sarah Fidler, Stephanie L. Sansom, T Welz, V Ochieng-Ooko, W Mutale, W Were, WA Were   +50 more
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HIV testing during pregnancy among women with a recent live birth—Seven US States, 2016–2019

Women's Health, 2023
Background: Although the United States has made progress in reducing the transmission of HIV from mother-to-child, it has not yet met the goal of reducing such transmissions to 70%. Self-reported HIV testing varied by state of residence.
Ndidi Nwangwu-Ike, Martha Kapaya, Keydra Oladapo, Denise V DAngelo   +3 more
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HIV treatment for prevention [PDF]

Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2011
“No virus, no transmission.” Studies have repeatedly shown that viral load (the quantity of virus present in blood and sexual secretions) is the strongest predictor of HIV transmission during unprotected sex or transmission from infected mother to child.Effective treatment lowers viral load to undetectable levels.
Ambrosioni Czyrko, Juan, Calmy, Alexandra, Hirschel, Bernard   +2 more
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Human immunodeficiency virus is a driven factor of human papilloma virus among women: evidence from a cross-sectional analysis in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Virology Journal, 2020
Background Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the leading cause of cervical cancers, causing 270.000 deaths annually worldwide of which 85% occur in developing countries with an increasing risk associated to HIV infection.
Samuel Martin Sosso, Michel Carlos Tommo Tchouaket, Joseph Fokam, Rachel Kamgaing Simo, Judith Torimiro, Aline Tiga, Elise Elong Lobe, Georgia Ambada, Achille Nange, Ezechiel Ngoufack Jagni Semengue, Alex Durand Nka, Valère Tala, Collins Chenwi, Aissatou Abba, Aude Christelle Ka’e, Bouba Yagai, Vittorio Colizzi, Alexis Ndjolo   +17 more
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Evaluating the effect of the plan of national syphilis control in controlling the syphilis epidemic in Jiangsu, China 2010–2020

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundStarting in 2010, the Chinese government initiated a 10-year syphilis control plan, called the national syphilis control plan (NSCP), to address the emerging threat of syphilis.
Lingen Shi, Lingen Shi, Liping Chen, Xiaoyan Liu, Haiyang Hu, Yuheng Chen, Yunting Chen, Zhi Zhang, Ying Zhou, Jing Lu, Dandan Yang, Wenhui Guan   +11 more
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