Published in La Revue de medecine interne
Nowadays, thanks to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is transforming into a chronic disease. The life expectancy of people living with HIV (PWH) has increased, as well as their risk of developing several co-morbidities, in particular cardiovascular diseases. In addition, the incidence of ven...
Published in Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica
Nuestros resultados revelan que las estrategias implementadas durante los 8 primeros meses de pandemia han evitado el deterioro en parámetros de control y seguimiento empleados habitualmente en PCV. Además, contribuyen a la reflexión sobre el encaje de la telemedicina y telefarmacia en modelos asistenciales futuros.
Objective: To determine the characteristics and frequency of patients aged over 18 years with tuberculosis (TB) before (2019) and during (2020) the COVID-19 pandemic in a healthcare center (CS) in Lima, Peru. Materials and methods: A descriptive retrospective study that included medical records of 100 patients aged > 18 years enrolled in the TB pro...
Published in The International journal on drug policy
Grâce à l’efficacité des médicaments antirétroviraux (ARV), la mortalité et la morbidité liées à l’épidémie de VIH ont considérablement diminué au cours des dernières décennies. Néanmoins en Afrique, la persistance de nouvelles infections et le développement de résistances aux ARV traduisent les difficultés dans la prévention et la prise en charge....
This article studies the representations of women with HIV/AIDS, in the book Tiempos del SIDA. Relatos de la vida real, by Myriam Francis. The work be-gins with a reflection on the exclusion of female subjects from Latin American “seropositive” literature. It is argued that the few representations that exist fo-cus on “suspicious women”, which is r...
Le programme ATLAS, coordonné par un symposium Solthis / IRD et financé par Unitaid, a visé la promotion et le déploiement de l'autodépistage du VIH (ADVIH) en Afrique de l'Ouest. Il a été mis en oeuvre entre 2019 et 2021 en Côte d'Ivoire, au Mali et au Sénégal avec les ministères de la santé des trois pays et une trentaines de partenaires. Près de...
Published in Nefrologia
Kidney disease is frequent in HIV-patients. We present a case of a 44-year-old woman, with known uncontrolled HIV infection and chronic kidney disease due to HIV-associated nephropathy. After starting dolutegravir, the patient developed eosinophilia and worsening kidney function. A kidney biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of acute interstitial nephrit...
Published in Revue d'epidemiologie et de sante publique
The majority of adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) reside in sub-Saharan Africa, with sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs to be met. The health care facilities and professionals involved have a major role to assume in the quality of SRH services offered to these teenagers. To investigate the SRH services offered to ALHIV subjects in pediatr...
