Winkley, Kirsty Upsher, Rebecca Stahl, Daniel Pollard, Daniel Kasera, Architaa Brennan, Alan Heller, Simon Ismail, Khalida
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Health technology assessment (Winchester, England)
Living with diabetes mellitus (hereafter referred to as diabetes) involves taking on new roles and responsibilities and is key to success in achieving the best diabetes control. There are education programmes that help people with diabetes to access the information and skills needed but managing diabetes is hard and must be done 24/7, causing peopl...
Rosenberg, Nora E
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Sexually transmitted infections
Ramachandran, S Mishra, S Condie, N Pickles, MREH
Objective: To determine whether, and how, sexual behaviour of HIV-negative individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) changes upon learning their serostatus. Methods: We systematically reviewed the published literature using EMBASE and Medline to search for publications between 2004 and 2014. We included studies that quantified behaviour change (condo...
Healey, L M Michaels, C Bittoun, R Templeton, D J
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Sexually transmitted infections
Catallozzi, Marina Ebel, Sophia C Chávez, Noé R Shearer, Lee S Mindel, Adrian Rosenthal, Susan L
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Sexually transmitted infections
Individuals with genital herpes are expected to disclose to susceptible partners. This analysis suggests that understanding lay perspectives on herpes disclosure to a partner may help healthcare providers develop counselling messages that decrease anxiety and foster disclosure to prevent transmission.
Desgrées-du-Loû, Annabel Orne-Gliemann, Joanna
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Reproductive health matters
In Africa, a large proportion of HIV infections occur within stable relationships, either because of prior infection of one of the partners or because of infidelity. In five African countries at least two-thirds of couples with at least one HIV-positive partner were HIV serodiscordant; in half of them, the woman was the HIV-positive partner. Hence,...
Umeora, Odie Ugochukwa Esike, Chidi
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African journal of AIDS research : AJAR
The Catholic Church in Nigeria offers premarital HIV screening to couples, yet instances of voluntary screening are rare in southeast Nigeria. This study examines the contribution of such tests to HIV detection, and evaluates the prevalence of HIV infection in southeast Nigeria among couples who are planning to marry. Out of 858 individuals (or 429...
Skinner, Donald Mfecane, Sakhumzi Gumede, Tebogo Henda, Nomvo Davids, Adlai
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African journal of AIDS research : AJAR
Despite good intentions and commitment from providers, prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services can be difficult for pregnant women to access, despite the provision of free health services for women and children. We examined the introduction of PMTCT services in a very poor rural area of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, to ...
Balamoutsou, Sophia
United Kingdom
Fox, C. Joughin, C. Royal Coll. of Psychiatrists, London (Un...
United Kingdom