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- 1From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be the most frequent cause of illness and death from an infectious agent globally, and its interaction with HIV is having devastating effects. To investigate how HIV alters...
- 2From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: Recent years have seen an increasing recognition of the need to improve access and retention in care for people living with HIV/AIDS. This review aims to quantify patients along the continuum of care in...
- 3From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: Mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV can be reduced to<5% with appropriate antiretroviral medications. Such reductions depend on multiple health system encounters during antenatal care (ANC), delivery and...
- 4From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: Tenofovir‐containing regimens have demonstrated potential efficacy as pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in preventing HIV‐1 infection. Transmitted drug resistance mutations associated with tenofovir,...
- 5From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Since HIV‐1 RNA (viral load) testing is not routinely available in Haiti, HIV‐infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) are monitored using the World Health Organization (WHO) clinical and/or...
- 6From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The aim of our study was to assess the extent of late presentation for HIV care in Northern Greece during the period 2000 to 2010 and to explore correlations aiming to provide guidance for future...
- 7From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: Building on earlier works demonstrating the effectiveness and acceptability of provider‐initiated counselling and testing (PITC) services in integrated outpatient departments of urban primary healthcare...
- 8From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: Disclosure of HIV serostatus by women to their sexual partners is critical for the success of the prevention of mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programme as an integrated service in antenatal...
- 9From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Lesbian, bisexual, queer and transgender (LBQT) women living with HIV have been described as invisible and understudied. Yet, social and structural contexts of violence and discrimination exacerbate the...
- 10From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Living with HIV is of daily concern for many South Africans and poses challenges including adapting to a chronic illness and continuing to achieve and meet social expectations. This study explored...
- 11From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: HIV‐positive patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) frequently experience metabolic complications such as dyslipidemia and insulin resistance, as well as lipodystrophy, increasing...
- 12From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: HIV‐positive children in low‐income settings face many challenges to adherence to antiretroviral treatment (ART) and have increased mortality on treatment compared to children in developed countries. Adult...
- 13From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGlobal commitments aim to provide antiretroviral therapy (ART) to 15 million people living with HIV by 2015, and recent studies have demonstrated the potential for widespread ART to prevent HIV transmission....
- 14From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhile there has been remarkable progress in understanding the biology of HIV‐1 and its recognition by the human immune system, we have not yet developed an efficacious HIV‐1 vaccine. Vaccine challenges include the...
- 15From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: Linkage from HIV testing and counselling (HTC) to initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is suboptimal in many national programmes in sub‐Saharan Africa, leading to delayed initiation of ART and...
- 16From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: Despite recent advances in the management of HIV infection and increased access to treatment, prevention, care and support, the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to be a major global health problem, with...
- 17From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper examines the ways in which HIV prevention is understood including “biomedical”, “behavioural”, “structural”, and “combination” prevention. In it I argue that effective prevention entails developing community...
- 18From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: Every year, HIV‐associated tuberculosis (TB) deprives 350,000 mainly young people of productive and healthy lives. People die because TB is not diagnosed and treated in those with known HIV infection and...
- 19From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Russia has a substantial HIV epidemic which is poised to escalate in the coming years. The increases in prevalence of HIV will result in increased healthcare needs by a medical system with limited...
- 20From: Journal of the International AIDS Society. (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: Clinical outcome is an important determinant of programme success. This study aims to evaluate patients’ baseline characteristics as well as level of care associated with lost to follow‐up (LTFU) and...