The evolving role of HIV counseling and testing in resource-limited settings: HIV prevention and linkage to expanding HIV care access.

abstract：:Several all-oral direct-acting antiviral (DAA) combination therapies including two fixed-dose combinations (FDCs) have been recently licensed for treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection. Results of pivotal trials with these new compounds are now also available in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/HC...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Boesecke C,Rockstroh JK

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female sex workers (FSWs) continue to represent a high-risk population in need of targeted HIV prevention interventions. Targeting environmental risk factors should result in more sustainable behavior change than individual-level interventions alone. There are many types of FSWs who operate in and through a variety of...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Pitpitan EV,Kalichman SC,Eaton LA,Strathdee SA,Patterson TL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV research has identified approaches that can be combined to be more effective in transmission reduction than any 1 modality alone: delayed adolescent sexual debut, mutual monogamy or sexual partner reduction, correct and consistent condom use, pre-exposure prophylaxis with oral antiretroviral drugs or vaginal micro...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Vermund SH,Hayes RJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the co-occurrence of sexual risk behaviors and substance use among HIV-positive individuals, there is often a need for HIV prevention efforts to target multiple behaviors. Motivational Interviewing (MI), a widely disseminated behavior change intervention, has demonstrated effectiveness in promoting behavior cha...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Naar-King S,Parsons JT,Johnson AM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV may cause several forms of peripheral neuropathy, the most common of which is distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSP) characterized by pain and sensory deficits in a stocking-glove distribution. The pathophysiology of DSP remains largely unknown but is thought to be related both to the neurotoxicity of HIV-through i...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Stavros K,Simpson DM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the introduction of potent combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) into clinical practice, HIV-infected patients have garnered much benefit. However, kidney disease continues to be a potential complication in this group. Whereas HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) was the major renal complication prior to cART, ...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Kumar N,Perazella MA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV infection is one of the strongest risk factors for anal squamous cell cancer (ASCC). Most ASCC are caused by HPV, and most HPV-associated ASCC are caused by HPV-16. Anal HPV infections are very common in men who have sex with men (MSM), and nearly universal among HIV-infected MSM. High-grade anal intraepithelial n...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Schim van der Loeff MF,Mooij SH,Richel O,de Vries HJ,Prins JM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents are critical to efforts to end the AIDS epidemic. Few national AIDS strategies explicitly program for children in their second decade of life. Adolescents (aged 10-19 years) are therefore largely invisible in global, regional, and country HIV and AIDS reports making it difficult to assess progress in this ...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Kasedde S,Luo C,McClure C,Chandan U

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent policies, guidelines, and laws reflect promising preliminary outcomes among transplant recipients with HIV infection, and ethical analyses suggest that it is not justifiable to deny solid organ transplantation based solely on HIV-infection status. These studies consistently describe stable HIV disease following...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Roland ME,Stock PG

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the magnitude and spectrum of ocular complications of HIV infection in sub-Sahara Africa. A literature search was done using PubMed, Google, and UpToDate and by talking to ophthalmologists and HIV experts working in the region. Ocular complications of HIV infection, mostly retinal, are seen in 29%...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Nkomazana O,Tshitswana D

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persons who inject drugs (PWID) are at high risk for infection with and poor outcomes from HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV). Well-established interventions for HIV/HCV prevention among PWID include syringe access, opioid agonist maintenance treatment, and supervised injection facilities, yet these interventions remain ...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Coffin PO,Rowe C,Santos GM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Advances in short- and long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) technologies have incentivized the need to understand how individuals make trade-offs and competing decisions regarding PrEP modalities. The purpose of this review was to examine how researchers have conceptualized and measured attribu...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Bauermeister JA,Downs JS,Krakower DS

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Neurological conditions associated with HIV/AIDS including central nervous system (CNS), opportunistic infections (OI), chronic conditions including HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) viral escape remain major contributors to morbidity and mortality worldwide. CNS in...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Thakur KT

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among patients with HIV living in Africa. Broadening the scope of cotrimoxazole (CTX) prophylaxis to cover patients whose CD4 counts are above 200 cells/mm(3) has been suggested as a means of improving the control of infectious disease on the continent. C...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Spencer DC

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The purpose of this paper is to provide a thorough overview of methods used for recruitment, network data collection, and network data management in a network-based study of rural people who use drugs (PWUD) and to offer methodological recommendations for future research on rural drug use. RECENT FIN...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Young AM,Rudolph AE,Havens JR

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the last three decades, sub-Saharan Africa has been the epicentre of the HIV epidemic. Some key drivers of the epidemic are specific to this region and there is an urgent need to develop context-specific strategies to reduce HIV-related burden. Implementation frameworks should endeavour to combine structural, beha...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Shanaube K,Bock P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Aligning HIV treatment services with patient preferences can promote long-term engagement. A rising number of studies solicit such preferences using discrete choice experiments, but have not been systematically reviewed to seek generalizable insights. Using a systematic search, we identified eleven ch...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Eshun-Wilson I,Kim HY,Schwartz S,Conte M,Glidden DV,Geng EH

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Roughly 10 % of HIV-positive individuals worldwide have concomitant chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, with large differences between geographical regions and/or risk groups. Hepatitis B is a preventable infection with vaccines. However, it cannot be eradicated once acquired, resembling HIV and in contrast wit...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Soriano V,Labarga P,de Mendoza C,Peña JM,Fernández-Montero JV,Benítez L,Esposito I,Barreiro P

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injecting drug use is a common mode of transmission among persons with HIV/AIDS. Many HIV-infected patients meet diagnostic criteria for opioid dependence, a chronic and relapsing brain disorder. Most HIV providers, however, receive little training in substance use disorders. Opioid agonist therapy (OAT) has a stabili...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Lum PJ,Tulsky JP

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first association between HIV-1 infection and kidney disease was made in 1984 and much has been learned over the past 20 years. In recent years, more effective therapies for HIV-1 infection and its associated opportunistic infections have led to improved patient survival. However, with prolonged survival, morbidit...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Cho ME,Kopp JB

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV is a devastating worldwide epidemic that has had substantial social and economic impacts throughout the globe. Due to the presence of a small pool of latently infected cells that persists during antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV is not curable. Because of the high cost of ART and the lack of reliable accessibility...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Barton KM,Palmer SE

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation criteria from published national guidelines for 94 countries (representing 86 % of global HIV burden) and compares them with the 2013 World Health Organization (WHO) ART guidelines. As of 31st of July 2014, 19 countries have adopted the WHO-recommended C...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Gupta S,Williams B,Montaner J

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipodystrophy and its two components lipo-accumulation and lipoatropy are very common among individuals with HIV infection on treatment, especially among those who started therapy in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This review discusses the current management of these complications of HIV and its treatment. For the pu...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Tebas P

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this meta-analytic study is to summarize the current science concerning the (a) prevalence of alcohol use, (b) prevalence of sexual risk behaviors, and (c) association between alcohol use and sexual risk behaviors among people livingwithHIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Studies were included if they sampled PLWHA, eval...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Scott-Sheldon LA,Walstrom P,Carey KB,Johnson BT,Carey MP,MASH Research Team.

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-infected individuals are at increased risk for most types of cancer, including those typically classified as non-AIDS-defining cancers (NADCs). This increased risk is likely multifactorial, but a prominent risk factor for the increased rate of some cancers is co-infection with oncogenic viruses. Anal cancer, hepat...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Riedel DJ,Tang LS,Rositch AF

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-reports are the most widely used method for measuring antiretroviral adherence. The association between self-reports and viral loads has been repeatedly demonstrated, but this association does not address how well self-reports measure actual medication-taking behaviors. Understanding adherence self-reports requir...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Wilson IB,Carter AE,Berg KM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:In the absence of antiretroviral therapy (ART), more than 50% of perinatally HIV-infected children die by 2 years of age. Early ART from infancy is therefore a global recommendation and significantly improves immune health, child survival, and disease outcome. However, even early treatment does not pr...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Berendam SJ,Nelson AN,Goswami R,Persaud D,Haigwood NL,Chahroudi A,Fouda GG,Permar SR

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine months of daily isoniazid is efficacious in treating latent M. tuberculosis infection, but completion rates are low, limiting treatment effectiveness. In 2011, three important studies were published involving novel regimens for the treatment of latent M. tuberculosis infection. At least 36 months of isoniazid was...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Person AK,Sterling TR

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:In this report, we review the need for point-of-care (POC) or near real-time testing for antiretrovirals, progress in the field, evidence for guiding implementation of these tests globally, and future directions in objective antiretroviral therapy (ART) or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) adherence mon...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Drain PK,Bardon AR,Simoni JM,Cressey TR,Anderson P,Sevenler D,Olanrewaju AO,Gandhi M,Celum C

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Glycoimmunology is an emerging field focused on understanding how immune responses are mediated by glycans (carbohydrates) and their interaction with glycan-binding proteins called lectins. How glycans influence immunological functions is increasingly well understood. In a parallel way, in the HIV fie...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Colomb F,Giron LB,Trbojevic-Akmacic I,Lauc G,Abdel-Mohsen M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00