Rice, Whitney S. Fletcher, Faith E. Akingbade, Busola Kan, Mary Whitfield, Samantha Ross, Shericia Gakumo, C. Ann Ofotokun, Igho Konkle-Parker, Deborah J. Cohen, Mardge H.
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International Journal for Equity in Health
BackgroundEnding the HIV epidemic requires that women living with HIV (WLWH) have access to structurally competent HIV-related and other health care. WLWH may not regularly engage in care due to inadequate quality; however, women’s perspectives on the quality of care they receive are understudied.MethodsWe conducted 12 focus groups and three in-dep...
Nobles, Alicia L Leas, Eric C Latkin, Carl A Dredze, Mark Strathdee, Steffanie A Ayers, John W
Instagram, with more than 1 billion monthly users, is the go-to social media platform to chronicle one's life via images, but how are people using the platform to present visual content about HIV? We analyzed public Instagram posts containing the hashtag "#HIV" (because they are self-tagged as related to HIV) between January 2017 and July 2018. We ...
Dragović, Gordana Dimitrijević, Božana Kušić, Jovana Soldatović, Ivan Jevtović, Djordje Olagunju, Adeniyi Owen, Andrew
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British journal of clinical pharmacology
Lopinavir (LPV) is not a first-line regimen. According to recent WHO data, LPV usage in low- and middle-income countries accounted for approximately 52% of the adult and 23% of the paediatric protease inhibitor market in 2017. Since LPV is a substrate for the SLCO1B1 (OATP1B1) transporter, the aim of this study was to assess the impact of SLCO1B1 p...
Dill, LeConté J Gousse, Yolene Huggins, Kimberly Fraser, Marilyn A Browne, Ruth C Stewart, Mark Salifu, Moro Joseph, Michael A Wilson, Tracey E
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Health promotion practice
Barbershop-based interventions have been increasingly implemented as a means to support culturally relevant and community-accessible health promotion and disease prevention efforts. Specifically, in neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York, with high HIV seroprevalence rates, barbers have volunteered to support an initiative to help reduce sexual risk b...
Letang, Emilio Ellis, Jayne Naidoo, Kogieleum Casas, Esther C Sánchez, Paquita Hassan-Moosa, Razia Cresswell, Fiona Miró, Jose M García-Basteiro, Alberto L
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Archivos de bronconeumologia
Despite wide antiretroviral scale-up during the past two decades resulting in declining new infections and mortality globally, HIV-associated tuberculosis remains as a major public health concern. Tuberculosis is the leading HIV-associated opportunistic infection and the main cause of death globally and, particularly, in resource-limited settings. ...
Lasisi, Nurudeen Oluwasola
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Mathematical Models in Engineering
Since the discovering of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, more people have been infected with the HIV/AIDS infection and several individuals have died of HIV/AIDS virus. In this research work, an infection-age-structured mathematical model for HIV/AIDS transmission dynamics is developed and investigated, taking into consideration the public awareness, Treatm...
Sun, Xiaodan Yang, Wenmin Tang, Sanyi Shen, Mingwang Wang, Tianyang Zhu, Qiuying Shen, Zhiyong Tang, Shuai Chen, Huanhuan Ruan, Yuhua
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundThe Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region bears a relatively high burden of HIV/AIDS infection. The number of accumulatively reported HIV/AIDS cases in Guangxi is the third highest among 31 provinces or Autonomous Region from 2004 to 2007, changed to the second highest between 2011 and 2013, then returned to the third highest again after 2014....
Tesfay, Fisaha Javanparast, Sara Mwanri, Lillian Ziersch, Anna
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundIn Ethiopia, stigmatising attitudes towards people living with HIV have reduced over time. This is mainly due to improved HIV knowledge and the expansion of access to HIV care and support services. However, HIV stigma and discrimination remain a key challenge and have negative impacts on access to and utilisation of HIV services including...
Teepker, M. Peters, M. Vedder, H. Schepelmann, K. Lautenbacher, S.
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Neuropsychobiology
Background: The results of studies examining the response to experimental pain during the menstrual cycle are conflicting because of differences in the definitions of the menstrual period, outcome measures and types of experimental pain stimulation. So far, there have been only a few studies correlating experimental pain with the levels of gonadal ...
Mekuriaw, Birhanie Belayneh, Zelalem Molla, Alemayehu Mehare, Tsegaye
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Systematic Reviews
BackgroundAlcohol use is a challenging problem which attributes to more than 5% of the overall global burden of disease. It is more common among persons with HIV infection than the general population. Although there are separate studies regarding people with HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, their results are highly variable and discrepant. The objectives of t...
