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Knowledge of PEP and PrEP among people living with HIV/aids in Brazil

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) are key to preventing sexual transmission of HIV, whose sexual partners are at high risk of acquiring HIV.
Laelson Rochelle Milanês Sousa, Henrique Ciabotti Elias, Nilo Martinez Fernandes, Elucir Gir, Renata Karina Reis   +4 more
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Enhancing domestic violence advocates’ ability to discuss HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP): Feasibility and acceptability of an educational intervention

Women's Health, 2022
Background: Survivors of intimate partner violence are at elevated risk for HIV acquisition, yet there is limited research on the best strategies to optimize biomedical HIV prevention, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis among this population.
Tiara C Willie, Laurel Sharpless, Mauda Monger, Trace S Kershaw, Wendy B Mahoney, Jamila K Stockman   +5 more
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Using PrEP and Doing it for Ourselves (UPDOs Protective Styles), a Web-Based Salon Intervention to Improve Uptake of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Among Black Women: Protocol for a Pilot Feasibility Study

JMIR Research Protocols, 2022
BackgroundMultilevel interventions are necessary to address the complex social contributors to health that limit pre-exposure prophylaxis use among Black women, including medical distrust, pre-exposure prophylaxis stigma, and ...
Schenita D Randolph, Ragan Johnson, Allison Johnson, Lana Keusch   +3 more
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The experience of healthcare workers to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundThe effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis has been extensively documented. However, there are substantial gaps between the actual implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis and the ideal goal, especially in low-and middle-income countries ...
Liao Zhang, Yuqing Song, Xutong Zheng, Ying Liu, Hong Chen   +4 more
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“You tell him that ‘baby, I am protecting myself’”: Women’s agency and constraint around willingness to use pre-exposure prophylaxis in the Masibambane Study

Women's Health, 2022
Objectives: To explore women’s willingness to consider using pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention in the context of gendered relationship dynamics, in Durban, South Africa.
Abigail Harrison, Nonhlonipho Bhengu, Lori Miller, Theresa Exner, Nonkululeko Tesfay, Slindile Magutshwa, Silindile Khumalo, Scarlett Bergam, Susie Hoffman, Jill Hanass-Hancock   +9 more
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Rabies can be a disease of puppyhood

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
This brief report documents an interesting and a rare case of 10 week old male puppy who suddenly showed a change in his behavior (irritable, agitated, anorexic, and refusing feeds), bitten six humans, and was laboratory-confirmed as died due to rabies ...
Monil Singhai, Rekha Jaiswal, Cordelia Siddiqui, Simmi Tiwari, Naveen Gupta, Manju Bala, Sujeet K Singh   +6 more
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Online Navigation for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis via PleasePrEPMe Chat for HIV Prevention: Protocol for a Development and Use Study

JMIR Research Protocols, 2020
BackgroundPre-exposure prophylaxis is an HIV medication taken by an individual who is HIV-negative to prevent infection before exposure to the virus.
Weber, Shannon, Lazar, Laura, McCord, Alan, Romero, Charlie, Tan, Judy   +4 more
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Sex, PrEP and the moral backlash : A High Court decision on the funding of a drug that prevents HIV shows 1980s prejudice lingers on [PDF]

, 2016
The news last week that the National AIDS Trust had won its High Court challenge for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to be provided by NHS England has made the ...
Serrant, Laura
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Epidemiology and potential preventative measures for viral infections in children with malignancy and those undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation. [PDF]

, 2012
In pediatric patients with malignancy and those receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplants, bacterial and fungal infections have been the focus of fever and neutropenia episodes for decades.
Alexander, Sarah, Dvorak, Christopher C, Fisher, Brian T, Sung, Lillian, Zaoutis, Theoklis E, Zerr, Danielle M   +5 more
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Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Counseling in a Community Sexual Health Clinic for Men Who Have Sex with Men in Lisbon, Portugal

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2019
Introduction: Pre-exposure prophylaxis is defined as the use of antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV acquisition in uninfected individuals. Recognizing the increasing use of informal pre-exposure prophylaxis in Portugal, CheckpointLX, a community clinic ...
Sofia Ribeiro, Miguel Rocha
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