Interventions for body habitus changes associated with HIV infection and its treatment.

abstract：:The global HIV pandemic began to expand rapidly in southern Africa a decade later than was noted in central Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and North America. Multiple factors played a role in this rapid expansion which led Southern Africa to become the most heavily afflicted region for HIV/AIDS globally. In this issue...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Vermund SH,Sheldon EK,Sidat M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An emerging body of evidence suggests that intergenerational sexual partnerships may increase risk of HIV acquisition among young men who have sex with men (YMSM). However, no studies have comprehensively evaluated literature in this area. We applied a scoping review methodology to explore the relationships between ag...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Anema A,Marshall BD,Stevenson B,Gurm J,Montaner G,Small W,Roth EA,Lima VD,Montaner JS,Moore D,Hogg RS

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Increased access to testing and treatment means HIV can be managed as a chronic illness, though successful management requires continued engagement with the health care system. Most of the global HIV burden is in sub-Saharan Africa where rates of new infections are consistently higher in women versus men. Pregnancy is...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Psaros C,Remmert JE,Bangsberg DR,Safren SA,Smit JA

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is the process by which a patient's dosing regimen is guided by repeated measures of plasma drug concentrations. An enormous challenge with regard to TDM of antiretroviral drugs (ARV) is that the concentration goals can be moving targets. Well-designed prospective studies demonstratin...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Kiser JJ,Anderson PL,Gerber JG

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW:Early diagnosis and treatment of HIV following seroconversion improves individual and population health. Using published data on pre-treatment CD4 cell counts, we benchmarked the level of immunodeficiency at HIV diagnosis and ART initiation in the "real world" against those of the treatment and co...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Nash D,Robertson M

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：: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 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：:The role of voluntary counseling and testing (VCT)of HIV in resource-limited settings has recently broadened from primarily that of a prevention intervention to its identification as the key entry point into expanding access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy, additional HIV-specific medical care, and other support...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Liechty CA

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：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：: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：: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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To describe a small city/rural area HIV prevention project (the Cross Border Project) implemented in Ning Ming County, Guangxi Province, China, and Lang Son province, Vietnam, and consider its implications for addressing the opioid/heroin epidemic in small cities/rural areas in the USA. The descriptio...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Des Jarlais DC,Hammett TM,Kieu B,Chen Y,Feelemyer J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to potent antiretroviral medications greatly reduces morbidity and mortality due to HIV/AIDS, but drug toxicity limits treatment success in many individuals. The field of pharmacogenomics strives to understand the influence of human genetic variants in response to medications. Investigators have begun to identi...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Haas DW

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:End-stage organ disease prevalence is increasing among HIV-infected (HIV+) individuals. Trial and registry data confirm that solid organ transplantation (SOT) is efficacious in this population. Optimizing access to transplant and decreasing complications represent active frontiers. RECENT FINDINGS:HI...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Werbel WA,Durand CM

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy (ART) use are associated with perturbations in glucose and lipid metabolism. Increasing incidence of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity highlights the need for early identification and treatment of metabolic dysfunction. Newer ART regimens are less toxic for cellular...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Willig AL,Overton ET

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:Generation of memory T cells, which mediate immunity against microbes and cancers, relies, for optimal activity, on the interactions of multiple cell types that are highly regulated through the expression of soluble factors and negative and positive receptors. Their disruption will lead to aberrant immune responses, w...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： El-Far M,Halwani R,Said E,Trautmann L,Doroudchi M,Janbazian L,Fonseca S,van Grevenynghe J,Yassine-Diab B,Sékaly RP,Haddad EK

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population of patients with HIV infection achieving viral suppression on combination antiretroviral therapy is growing, aging, and experiencing a widening spectrum of non-AIDS diseases. Concurrently, AIDS-defining conditions are becoming less common and are variably associated with outcome. Nonetheless, the spectr...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Justice AC

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review summarizes recent literature defining tissue-resident memory T cells (TRM) and discusses implications for HIV pathogenesis, vaccines, and eradication efforts. RECENT FINDINGS:Investigations using animal models and human tissues have identified a TRM transcriptional profile and elucidated ...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Shacklett BL,Ferre AL,Kiniry BE

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:The HIV pandemic has disproportionately impacted sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Africa in particular. The concurrent presence of overlapping epidemic drivers likely underpins how and why the HIV epidemic is so explosive in this region, with implications for understanding approaches to reduce transmission. In this rev...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： McKinnon LR,Karim QA

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This narrative review summarizes recent data on factors associated with insulin resistance (IR) in adults with HIV, including contemporary antiretroviral therapy (ART). RECENT FINDINGS:IR remains common in persons with HIV, even those receiving contemporary ART. Generalized and abdominal obesity and ...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Hulgan T

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：: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：:Substance users are at elevated risk for HIV. HIV researchers, particularly at the intersection of HIV and substance use, have requested new methods to better understand and address this important area. New technologies, such as social media and mobile applications, are increasingly being used as research tools in stu...

journal_title：Current HIV/AIDS reports

authors： Young SD,Swendeman D,Holloway IW,Reback CJ,Kao U

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00