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Pre-exposure rabies prophylaxis: a systematic review

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2016
To review the safety and immunogenicity of pre-exposure rabies prophylaxis (including accelerated schedules, co-administration with other vaccines and booster doses), its cost-effectiveness and recommendations for use, particularly in high-risk settings.We searched the PubMed, Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, Cochrane Library and ...
Kessels, Jocelyn A., Recuenco, Sergio, Briggs, Deborah, Navarro-Vela, Ana Maria, Deray, Raffy, Vigilato, Marco, Ertl, Hildegund, Durrheim, David, Rees, Helen, Nel, Louis H., Abela-Ridder, Bernadette   +10 more
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Supporting Access to HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in a Shifting Financial and Insurance Landscape

AJPM Focus
Introduction: Implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in the U.S. is critical to decreasing HIV transmission. However, regional disparities in pre-exposure prophylaxis use exist, with the southern U.S.
Connor Eichenwald, MD, MPH, Robin T. Higashi, PhD, Timothy P. Hogan, PhD, Jacqueline Naeem, MD, Julia L. Marcus, PhD, MPH, Douglas Krakower, MD, Ank E. Nijhawan, MD, MPH, MSCS   +6 more
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Awareness of, willingness to use, and experiences with Pre-exposure prophylaxis among youth in Nigeria [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research
Background Youth (ages 14–24) in Nigeria have disproportionately high rates of new HIV infection. Pre-exposure prophylaxis could substantially reduce new infections among youth but has not been scaled up.
Titilola Gbaja-Biamila, Chisom Obiezu-Umeh, Ucheoma Nwaozuru, Nora E. Rosenberg, Mesoma Igbokwe, David Oladele, Adesola Z. Musa, Ifeoma Idigbe, Donaldson Conserve, Suzanne Day, Kadija Tahlil, Jason Ong, Kathryn Muessig, Susan Nkengasong, Hong Xian, Joseph D. Tucker, Oliver Ezechi, Juliet Iwelunmor   +17 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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Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention in women: current perspectives

International Journal of Women's Health, 2017
Charlene A Flash,1 Sannisha K Dale,2–4 Douglas S Krakower3,5,6 1Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2Massachusetts General Hospital, 3Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School ...
Flash CA, Dale SK, Krakower DS
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HIV moments and pre-exposure prophylaxis [PDF]

The Lancet, 2016
www.thelancet.com Vol 387 April 9, 2016 1507 Submissions should be made via our electronic submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ thelancet/ iPrEx trial. RMG reports non-fi nancial support from Gilead Sciences and grants from GlaxoSmithKline, outside the submitted work.
Robert M, Grant, David V, Glidden
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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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“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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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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Prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV [PDF]

Australian Prescriber, 2020
Co-formulated tenofovir disoproxil plus emtricitabine is highly effective as pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV It is suitable for men who have sex with men, for heterosexual sex and for people who use intravenous drugs when there is a risk of HIV infection Pre-exposure prophylaxis is one pill per day and can be prescribed by all medical practitioners ...
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