Psichogiou, Mina Giallouros, George Pantavou, Katerina Pavlitina, Eirini Papadopoulou, Martha Williams, Leslie D Hadjikou, Andria Kakalou, Eleni Skoutelis, Athanasios Protopapas, Konstantinos
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Identifying and linking people to care soon after HIV infection could limit viral transmission and protect their health. This work aims at describing the continuum of care among recently HIV-infected people who inject drugs (PWID) and participated in an intervention in the context of an HIV outbreak in Athens, Greece. The Transmission Reduction Int...
Sparrow-Downes, Victoria M Loutfy, Mona Antoniou, Tony Vigod, Simone N
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Women with HIV have higher rates of psychiatric disorders than HIV-negative women, yet little is known about their postpartum mental health and associated service use. The purpose of this study was to characterize HIV-positive women's use of ambulatory and acute mental health services in the first year postpartum, relative to HIV-negative women. Us...
Thai, Truc Thanh Jones, Mairwen K Harris, Lynne M Heard, Robert C Bui, Hy-Han Thi
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This study investigated whether screening for symptoms of mental disorders and referral to mental health services was associated with decreased depression symptoms among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) in Vietnam. Four hundred PLHIV (63.5% male, mean age 34.8 (SD = 6.8) years) at two outpatient clinics in Ho Chi Minh City were interviewed by ps...
Fortin-Hughes, Marilyn Proulx-Boucher, Karène Rodrigue, Carl Otis, Joanne Kaida, Angela Boucoiran, Isabelle Greene, Saara Kennedy, Logan Webster, Kath Conway, Tracey
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Previous maternity experiences may influence subsequent reproductive intentions and motherhood experiences. We used latent class analysis to identify patterns of early motherhood experience reported for the most recent live birth of 905 women living with HIV enrolled in the Canadian HIV Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS). ...
Ge, Song McCaul, Mary E Nolan, Marie T Wei, Zhe Liu, Tingting Chander, Geetanjali
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In this retrospective study, we sought to determine the associations between alcohol use and anxiety and RIC among WHIV. Alcohol use was assessed using the Timeline Follow-back to measure use over the 90 days preceding the interview. Anxiety symptoms scores, assessed with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale- Anxiety Subscale (HADS-A). Primary...
Zeng, Chengbo Guo, Yan Hong, Y Alicia Gentz, Shelene Zhang, Jinxin Zhang, Hanxi Qiao, Jiaying Xu, Zhimeng Cai, Weiping
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Unemployment is associated with depression in people living with HIV (PLWH). However, few studies have examined the effects of unemployment on PLWH with different levels of depression. The current study explores the plausible differential effects of unemployment on the different percentiles of depression in PLWH employing a quantile regression (QR)...
Knettel, Brandon A Mulawa, Marta I Knippler, Elizabeth T Ciya, Nonceba Robertson, Corné Joska, John A Sikkema, Kathleen J
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HIV-infected women who have experienced sexual violence face unique challenges in their HIV care engagement and adherence to antiretroviral medications (ARVs). Improving AIDS Care after Trauma (ImpACT) is a brief counseling intervention aimed at reducing the negative impact of sexual trauma and HIV, building coping skills, and improving long-term H...
Matheu, Michelle Sunil, Thankam Castro-Peña, Alexandra Spears, Camille Elena Smith, Christopher James Flores, John Michael Taylor, Barbara S
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Stigma remains a leading barrier to HIV care. To determine the influence of disclosure stigma (DS), fear of disclosing one's serostatus, on virologic suppression, a cross-sectional study was performed at the largest publicly-funded HIV clinic in South Texas. A survey was administered to participants who were: ≥18 years old, living with HIV, and rec...
Kagiura, Fumiko Fujii, Teruhisa Kihana, Nobuko Maruyama, Eiko Shimoji, Yuka Kakehashi, Masayuki
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This study aimed of validating a ten-item HIV stigma scale that was originally developed in the U.S.A. and adapting it for Japanese adults with HIV. To adapt the HIV stigma scale for Japanese adults with HIV, a forward-backward translation method was employed. We assessed its validity and reliability using questionnaire survey data collected from 4...
Ogunbajo, Adedotun Leblanc, Natalie M Kushwaha, Sameer Boakye, Francis Hanson, Samuel Smith, Martez D R Nelson, LaRon E
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In Ghana, men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by HIV. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a biomedical intervention that reduces the risk of HIV infection but is not currently available in Ghana. This paper explores knowledge and acceptability of HIV PrEP among Ghanaian MSM. Qualitative content analysis was conducted on 2...
