Kang, Ezer Leu, Cheng-Shiun Snyder, Jordan Robbins, Reuben N Bucek, Amelia Mellins, Claude A
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AIDS care
Despite the increased recognition of how neighborhood conditions bear on cognitive and academic outcomes, no studies have examined the influences of objective and subjective neighborhood indices on specific areas of cognitive functioning among youth living with perinatal HIV (PHIV). In the United States (US), this is of particular concern as HIV ha...
West, Nora Schwartz, Sheree Mudavanhu, Mutsa Hanrahan, Colleen France, Holly Nel, Jeremy Mutunga, Lillian Bernhardt, Shelley Bassett, Jean Van Rie, Annelies
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AIDS care
We examined the prevalence of mental health conditions, social support, and associated factors among adolescents living with HIV. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis with adolescents (ages 9-19) attending a primary care clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa. We analyzed the results of four self-report tools: Children's Depression Inventory-Short...
Mileti, Francesca Poglia Mellini, Laura Sulstarova, Brikela Villani, Michela Singy, Pascal
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AIDS care
No study to date has focused on barriers to condom use specifically among young immigrants to Europe from sub-Saharan Africa. Based on a qualitative study in sociology, this paper explores generational differences in barriers to condom use between first-generation immigrants (born in Africa and arrived in Switzerland after age 10) and second-genera...
Sherbuk, Jacqueline E Barakat, Lydia Aoun
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AIDS care
For persons living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), care by an HIV-specialist improves outcomes and satisfaction with one's HIV primary care provider (PCP) promotes engagement with care. In the United States, we are facing a workforce shortage of HIV providers. As we aim to train a new generation of HIV providers, it is unclear how PLWHA perceive their e...
Bozinoff, Nikki Luo, Lerly Dong, Huiru Krüsi, Andrea DeBeck, Kora
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AIDS care
Syringe sharing places street-involved young people at risk of acquiring HIV and hepatitis C. While markers of economic marginalization, such as homelessness, have been linked with syringe sharing and have led to targeted interventions, the relationship between syringe sharing and other markers of economic vulnerability, such as sex work, are not w...
Letamo, Gobopamang
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AIDS care
Botswana is the world's second HIV heavily affected country, with an average HIV prevalence of 17.6% in 2013. The data used for this study are from Botswana AIDS Impact Surveys, I-IV, which are nationally representative sample surveys conducted in 2001, 2004, 2008 and 2013 respectively by the Central Statistics Office and the National AIDS Coordina...
Evangeli, Michael Lut, Irina Ely, Amanda
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AIDS care
There are large numbers of young people with HIV globally, the majority of whom have perinatally acquired HIV (PAH). Despite evidence of lower levels of wellbeing in young people with PAH compared to HIV unaffected peers, there are few psychosocial interventions for this population. Residential interventions (camps) for young people with HIV have t...
Rolland-Guillard, L de La Rochebrochard, E Sirirungsi, W Kanabkaew, C Breton, D Le Cœur, S
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AIDS care
Most perinatally HIV-infected children receiving antiretroviral treatment now survive into adolescence. This is a period when young people experience puberty, shape their sexual identity and initiate their own social life. The aim of our analysis was to compare aspects of the sexual and reproductive health, social life and plans for the future of p...
Mitton, Julian A North, Crystal M Muyanja, Daniel Okello, Samson Vořechovská, Dagmar Kakuhikire, Bernard Tsai, Alexander C Siedner, Mark J
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AIDS care
People living with HIV (PLWH) are more likely to smoke compared to HIV-uninfected counterparts, but little is known about smoking behaviors in sub-Saharan Africa. To address this gap in knowledge, we characterized smoking cessation patterns among people living with HIV (PLWH) compared to HIV-uninfected individuals in rural Uganda. PLWH were at leas...
Van Pilsum Rasmussen, Sarah E Henderson, Macey L Bollinger, Juli Seaman, Shanti Brown, Diane Durand, Christine M Segev, Dorry L Sugarman, Jeremy
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Recent changes to United States law now permit people living with HIV (PLWH) to donate organs to HIV-infected (HIV+) recipients under research protocols. PLWH may have unique motivations for and concerns about living donation and understanding them is critical to ensuring the integrity of this novel approach to organ transplantation. We conducted i...
