Stigma and sexual health risk in HIV-positive African American young men who have sex with men.

abstract：:Adherence to antiretroviral regimens is thought to be imperative for HIV-positive patients. However, little is known about health care professionals' willingness to discuss adherence with patients, nor what barriers, if any, may impede their adherence communication. The aims of the study were to examine physicians' be...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Roberts KJ

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample of perinatally HIV-infected (PHIV+) and perinatally HIV-exposed, uninfected (PHEU) adolescents, we examined the co-occurrence of behavioral health risks including mental health problems, onset of sexual and drug use behaviors, and (in PHIV+ youth) nonadherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). Participants,...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Mellins CA,Tassiopoulos K,Malee K,Moscicki AB,Patton D,Smith R,Usitalo A,Allison SM,Van Dyke R,Seage GR 3rd,Pediatric HIV\/AIDS Cohort Study.

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor engagement in HIV care has been associated with delayed access to antiretroviral treatment and increased HIV transmission. Using viral load (VL) results from HIV laboratory surveillance data to conduct longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses, we examined linkage to care, retention in care, and their associated ...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Hu YW,Kinsler JJ,Sheng Z,Kang T,Bingham T,Frye DM

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe what nurses know about HIV/AIDS in the First Affiliated Hospital of Jiamusi University, Heilongjiang Province, China. This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study. Only 7.9% of the nurse (n = 177) used condoms during their first experience of sexual intercourse. Eight-six per...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Chen WT,Han M,Holzemer WL

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality rates have decreased in medically compliant patients with HIV. More HIV-positive patients are requesting procedures that improve their quality of life. Reduction mammoplasty has been proven to predictably relieve back, neck, and shoulder pain related to macromastia. A case report is presented demonstrating a...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Johnson RM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a standardized screening tool to examine frequency of depression and its relation to antiretroviral medication adherence among HIV-infected persons on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the Study to Understand the Natural History of HIV/AIDS in the Era of Effective Therapy (SUN Study). This is a p...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Tedaldi EM,van den Berg-Wolf M,Richardson J,Patel P,Durham M,Hammer J,Henry K,Metzler S,Önen N,Conley L,Wood K,Brooks JT,Buchacz K,SUN Study Investigators.

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In HIV/AIDS, symptoms of depression or post-traumatic stress may interfere with important self-care behaviors such as the ability to adhere to one's medical treatment regimen. However, these problems may frequently go undetected in HIV care settings. The present study used brief self-report screening measures of depre...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Vranceanu AM,Safren SA,Lu M,Coady WM,Skolnik PR,Rogers WH,Wilson IB

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of HIV seroprevalence in Nigeria is troublesome because it is one of the highest prevalence rates worldwide. As in most developing countries, vertical transmission from mother to child accounts for most of the HIV infections in Nigerian children. The purpose of this study was to determine the awareness, attit...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Okonkwo KC,Reich K,Alabi AI,Umeike N,Nachman SA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation reduces the risk of disease progression and HIV transmission, but data on time from HIV care entry to ART initiation are lacking. Using data from the Medical Monitoring Project (MMP), a population-based probability sample of HIV-infected adults receiving medical care in th...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Adedinsewo DA,Wei SC,Robertson M,Rose C,Johnson CH,Dombrowski J,Skarbinski J

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addressing women's low uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) requires improved understanding of their product preferences. Such preferences should be contextualized according to other aspects of their reproductive health, including their contraception practices. We investigated women's preferences across 10 Pr...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Calabrese SK,Galvao RW,Dovidio JF,Willie TC,Safon CB,Kaplan C,Caldwell A,Blackstock O,Phillips NJ,Kershaw TS

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opportunistic infections during primary infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are rare, with the exception of oral and esophageal candidiasis. HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) typically occur during advanced HIV infection. We report two patients who developed HIVA...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Szabo S,James CW,Telford G

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-seropositive blacks, Hispanics, women of all ethnicities, and injection drug users (IDUs) have low rates of clinical trial participation. The opinions of research nurses and study coordinators as potential facilitators and barriers to access to clinical trials may contribute to this disparity. Study coordinators a...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： King WD,Defreitas D,Smith K,Andersen J,Perry LP,Adeyemi T,Mitty J,Fritsche J,Jeffries C,Littles M,Fischl M,Pavlov G,Mildvan D,Underrepresented Populations Committee of the Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group (AACTG).

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prisoner reentry is a stressful process and many prisoners return to behaviors that led to incarceration upon community reentry. We assess how individual-level vulnerabilities interact with system-level barriers that impact the community reentry process. An additional area explored was the impact of reentry services o...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Luther JB,Reichert ES,Holloway ED,Roth AM,Aalsma MC

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe the epidemiology, outcomes, and risk factors of acute kidney injury (AKI) among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).We reviewed all the HIV-infected admissions to the ICU at Beijing Ditan hospital in the time span from June 2005 to May 2017 and col...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Pu L,Liu J,Luo Y,Zeng H,Guo H,Hao J,Yin N,Liu Y,Xiong H,Xiong J,Li A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although crucial for efficacy of pharmacotherapy, adherence to prescribed medication regimens for both antiretrovirals and antidepressants is often suboptimal. As many depressed HIV-infected individuals are prescribed both antiretrovirals and antidepressants, it is important to know whether correlates of nonadherence ...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Bottonari KA,Tripathi SP,Fortney JC,Curran G,Rimland D,Rodriguez-Barradas M,Gifford AL,Pyne JM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing interest in promoting and supporting self-management of HIV and antiretroviral treatment (ART), including in resource-limited settings. Although the impact of HIV and ART on people in Uganda has been explored, little attention has been paid to how people self-manage. This qualitative study collecte...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Martin F,Kiwanuka T,Kawuma R,Zalwango F,Seeley J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient adherence (the degree to which patients follow their therapeutic regimen as prescribed within a set period of time) and persistence (the time to treatment discontinuation, with a permissible gap) with drug therapy are essential components of HIV/AIDS treatment. Select community pharmacies offer specialized ser...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Murphy P,Cocohoba J,Tang A,Pietrandoni G,Hou J,Guglielmo BJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited knowledge exists regarding parenting efficacy interventions for mothers living with HIV (MLH). This study evaluated the impact of a supportive group intervention on lowering parenting stress among MLH. Eighty MLH were randomized to a parenting (N=34) or health focused (control) (N=46) group intervention. Pre- ...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Johnson ER,Davies SL,Aban I,Mugavero MJ,Shrestha S,Kempf MC

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of access to health care is often blamed for poor health outcomes, but this effect is not supported by existing HIV/AIDS literature. The authors examined the association between access to care and survival time after progression to AIDS, using survival analysis methods. This study combined data from two CDC spons...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Montgomery JP,Gillespie BW,Gentry AC,Mokotoff ED,Crane LR,James SA

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV vaccine availability does not guarantee uptake. Given suboptimal uptake of highly efficacious and already accessible vaccines in the United States, low vaccine coverage in the developing world, and the expectation that initial HIV vaccines will be only partially efficacious, the public health community will face f...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Newman PA,Duan N,Rudy ET,Anton PA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) are disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Despite great strides in HIV prevention, including biobehavioral HIV prevention strategies such as pre-exposure prophylaxis and treatment as prevention, there has been relatively l...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Nelson KM,Pantalone DW,Gamarel KE,Carey MP,Simoni JM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of updated estimates of HIV-2 infection in Italy. Moreover, lack of standardized HIV-2 viral load (VL) and drug resistance tests challenges clinical practice. Among 2941 HIV-positive patients followed in our center (Brescia, Northern Italy), 220 (7.5%) were African at the beginning of the study period....

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Costarelli S,Torti C,Rodella A,Baldanti F,Paolucci S,Lapadula G,Manca N,Quiros-Roldan E,Izzo I,Carosi G

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) are a priority population for HIV prevention in high-burden settings. We evaluated psychosocial characteristics, behavioral risk factors for HIV, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness and uptake among AGYW seeking contraceptive services at four public sector family plann...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Sila J,Larsen AM,Kinuthia J,Owiti G,Abuna F,Kohler PK,John-Stewart G,Pintye J

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observational studies have examined the prevalence and impact of internalized stigma among African American women living with HIV, but there are no intervention studies investigating stigma reduction strategies in this population. Based on qualitative data previously collected, we adapted the International Center for ...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Rao D,Desmond M,Andrasik M,Rasberry T,Lambert N,Cohn SE,Simoni J

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth failure is a common problem in HIV-infected children. The extent to which this growth failure could be reversed after the children receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) is not known. This study assessed the incidence of growth failure in HIV-infected Thai children, impact of ART on growth, and the predictors of ...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Aurpibul L,Puthanakit T,Taecharoenkul S,Sirisanthana T,Sirisanthana V

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine the consequences of stopping highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in a group of 41 HIV-infected individuals with undetectable HIV viral loads and CD4+ counts greater than 500 cells per microliter for 6 months or more. Clinical and laboratory parameters were monitored, as was the time to ...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Jacobs B,Neil N,Aboulafia DM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral folliculitis is an infrequently reported entity. We describe two patients with viral folliculitides, including a case of herpetic sycosis caused by herpes simplex (HSV) and a case of herpes zoster (HZ) without blisters. Clinicians should consider viral etiologies in the differential diagnosis of superficial infe...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Weinberg JM,Turiansky GW,James WD

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 30 million people are infected with HIV, and HIV remains the fifth leading cause of disability-adjusted life years worldwide. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) dramatically decreases mortality rate, but there are side effects, long-term toxicities, expenses, stigmas, and inconveniences associated with chronic tre...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Wagner TA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) among persons living with HIV is largely dependent on strict medication adherence. Recent research suggests that alcohol and other drug use (AOD) may be an important barrier to HAART adherence. In this study, we examined the impact of AOD on HAART adherence a...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Lehavot K,Huh D,Walters KL,King KM,Andrasik MP,Simoni JM

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this research were to assess prevalence and predictors of early antiretroviral therapy adherence using multiple indicators and to estimate effects of early adherence on subsequent HIV viral load and CD4+ lymphocyte responses. Study subjects were adults with HIV infection referred to an antiretroviral...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Mathews WC,Mar-Tang M,Ballard C,Colwell B,Abulhosn K,Noonan C,Barber RE,Wall TL

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00