Kinsell, Heidi Goldfarb, Samantha Mills, Jon C Vogel, Bruce Harman, Jeffrey S
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AIDS care
In the United States (U.S.), to contain costs many state Medicaid programs offer specialty health insurance plans for costly conditions such as HIV/AIDS. This study compared service utilization between Florida Medicaid enrollees diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in standard Medicaid managed care plans to enrollees in HIV/AIDS specialty plans. We found lower ...
Dunne, Eugene M Rosen, Rochelle K Rich, Carla Norris, Alyssa L Salmoirago-Blotcher, Elena Carey, Michael P
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AIDS care
People living with HIV (PLWH) often experience mental health concerns as well as difficulties with medication adherence; they also report barriers to receipt of health services. Telephone-delivered interventions can overcome some of these barriers. To obtain patients' perspectives on telephone-delivered behavioral health services, we conducted a qu...
DiVita, Margaret A Mix, Jacqueline M Shelly, Sandeep Beshers, Sarah
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ABSTRACT Survival time in HIV/AIDS patients has increased as a result of improved treatments, but many acquire functional impairments that may necessitate multidisciplinary medical rehabilitation. In the United States, inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF) provide this care, but outcomes are not well described in this population. We used the Un...
Henwood, Benjamin F Rhoades, Harmony Redline, Brian Dzubur, Eldin Wenzel, Suzanne
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AIDS care
Young adults who experience homelessness have high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV. Homelessness services programmes that provide housing to young adults have the capacity to reduce STI risk profiles. This study analysed data from 140 formerly homeless adults who moved into a housing programme in Los Angeles County bet...
Ridgway, Jessica P Friedman, Eleanor E Choe, Justine Nguyen, Cynthia T Schuble, Todd Pettit, Natasha N
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AIDS care
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of mail order pharmacy services and travel time to pharmacy on HIV viral suppression rates among people living with HIV. For adult patients receiving HIV care from 2010 to 2015 at an urban HIV care clinic, we collected demographics, pharmacy type, viral load, and patient home and pharmacy address. We geocoded...
Lwanga, Isaac Nabaggala, Maria Sarah Kiragga, Agnes Calcagno, Andrea Guaraldi, Giovanni Lamorde, Mohammed Castelnuovo, Barbara
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AIDS care
We conducted a cross-sectional study to describe routine physical function assessment for HIV-infected adults aged ≥60 years attending a large urban HIV clinic in Kampala, Uganda. Assessed demographic and clinical factors associated with low physical function in the population, generalized linear regression model was used to estimate factors associ...
Cobre, Alexandre F Pedro, Couto de Azarias Assis Fachi, Mariana M Vilhena, Raquel O Marson, Breno M Nicobue, Victor Tonin, Fernanda S Pontarolo, Roberto
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An observational retrospective study was conducted over a 5-year period to assess survival and predictors of death in people with HIV-positive serology undergoing antiretroviral treatment with first-line regimens at the Military Hospital of Nampula, Mozambique. We collected data from 332 patient records. Kaplan-Meier boundary product estimator, log...
Neary, Jillian Njuguna, Irene N Cranmer, Lisa M Otieno, Vincent O Mugo, Cyrus Okinyi, Hellen M Benki-Nugent, Sarah Richardson, Barbra A Stern, Joshua Maleche-Obimbo, Elizabeth
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AIDS care
Newly diagnosed HIV positive children may be unique index cases to identify undiagnosed parents. Data was used from the Pediatric Urgent Start of HAART (NCT02063880) trial, which enrolled hospitalized, ART-naïve, HIV positive children ages 0-12 years in Kenya. Exact McNemar's tests were used to compare proportions of mothers and fathers tested for ...
Ilunga Tshiswaka, Daudet Whembolua, Guy-Lucien Nduka, Uzoma Muvuka, Baraka Hill, Aaron Inungu, Joseph N Conserve, Donaldson F
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing is a cornerstone in preventing HIV infections and accessing treatment for HIV. However, HIV testing remains low among men in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The purpose of this study was to assess the correlates of HIV testing among men in the DRC. Data from the 2014 DRC Demographic Health Survey w...
Desmond, Chris Labuschagne, Phillip Cluver, Lucie Tomlinson, Mark Richter, Linda Hunt, Xanthe Marlow, Marguerite Welte, Alex
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A mathematical model, populated primarily with data from South Africa, was developed to model the numbers of children affected by maternal HIV, and the number who will experience long-term negative developmental consequences. A micro-simulation model generated two scenarios. The first simulated a cohort of women whose HIV status mimicked that of a ...
