Mostad, S B Kreiss, J K Ryncarz, A Chohan, B Mandaliya, K Ndinya-Achola, J Bwayo, J J Corey, L
Published in
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
Our purpose was to evaluate the frequency and patterns of the shedding of herpes simplex virus and cytomegalovirus in the female genital tract throughout the menstrual cycle. Seventeen women, all seropositive for herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2, cytomegalovirus, and human immunodeficiency virus type 1, underwent daily evaluation of cervical vira...
Ayisi, J G van Eijk, A M ter Kuile, F O Kolczak, M S Otieno, J A Misore, A O Kager, P A Steketee, R W Nahlen, B L
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International journal of STD & AIDS
This study evaluated the HIV prevalence and identified the risk factors for HIV infection among women attending the antenatal clinic at a public hospital in Kisumu, western Kenya. Also, the effect of placental malaria on vertical HIV transmission were determined using structured interviews and HIV-1 antibody testing and hemoglobin malaria smears we...
Newmann, S Sarin, P Kumarasamy, N Amalraj, E Rogers, M Madhivanan, P Flanigan, T Cu-Uvin, S McGarvey, S Mayer, K
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International journal of STD & AIDS
A retrospective study was conducted on 134 HIV-infected females evaluated at an HIV/AIDS centre in south India to characterize their sociodemographics, HIV risk factors and initial clinical presentations. The mean age was 29 years; 81% were housewives; 95% were currently or previously married; 89% reported heterosexual sex as their only HIV risk fa...
Nath, M B
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Gender and development
This article narrates an inspiring discovery for development professionals who are searching for ways to empower women to protect themselves, their partners and families from HIV infection. This was based on the experience of the author as she came across a movement of sex workers who successfully negotiated safe sex in the heart of Calcutta, India...
Nabwire, J
Published in
Sexual health exchange
Since 1992, the National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda has been working to improve the quality of life of Ugandan women living with HIV/AIDS. HIV-positive mothers who were finding it difficult to tell their children about their HIV status started the so-called Memory Project, which tries to help HIV-positive parents give their c...
Schoofs, M
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Village voice (Greenwich Village, New York, N.Y.)
This article focuses on how women's powerlessness and subordinate status spreads HIV throughout Africa. It discusses specific traditional practices that lead to increasing rates of infection in the region. Dry sex is one such practice that is common throughout southern Africa, where the AIDS epidemic is the worst compared with anywhere in the world...
Meda, N Zoundi-Guigui, M T van de Perre, P Alary, M Ouangré, A Cartoux, M Mandelbrot, L Viens, P Dabis, F
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International journal of STD & AIDS
This study examines the prevalence of HIV infection among the pregnant women in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, through a comparison of voluntary and blinded seroprevalence estimates. Research methodology involves unlinked and anonymous HIV screening survey of 200 pregnant women attending two antenatal clinics from September 25 to October 1996. HIV s...
Wilkinson, D Wilkinson, N F Connolly, C
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International journal of STD & AIDS
This article features a study on the disease-specific prevalence of HIV infection among 196 gynecologic patients admitted to Hlabisa hospital, South Africa, in 1997. The data obtained were presented as crude HIV prevalence and disease-specific HIV prevalence. Findings reflected a high prevalence of HIV infection and showing a significant associatio...
Marseille, E Kahn, J G Mmiro, F Guay, L Musoke, P Fowler, M G Jackson, J B
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Lancet (London, England)
The cost effectiveness of HIVNET 012 nevirapine regimen for treatment of HIV-1-positive mothers was assessed in a hypothetical cohort of 20,000 pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. The program cost, pediatric HIV-1 cases averted, and cost per disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) were the main outcome measures. Univariate and multivariate analyses ...
Newell, M L
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Lancet (London, England)
Anna Coutsoudis and colleagues present a potentially important piece of the puzzle concerning the transmission of HIV-1 through breast-feeding in the first few months of life. Breast-feeding poses a substantial risk of acquiring HIV-1 infection for the baby of an HIV-1-infected mother. Samples from 549 infants were tested by HIV-DNA PCR on day 1 an...
