HIV post-exposure prophylaxis programmes in the developed and developing world: can we learn from each other?

abstract：:Hispanic and Black adults are disproportionately affected by HIV and experience poorer HIV-related health outcomes relative to non-Hispanic White adults. The current study adopted Sørensen's integrated model to test the hypothesis that lower functional and critical health literacy competencies contribute to poorer HIV...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Walker RL,Hong JH,Talavera DC,Verduzco M,Woods SP

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States 40% of HIV patients are lost to follow-up (LTFU) following linkage to HIV care and an estimated 30-61% of new HIV transmissions are attributed to this group. To characterize those LTFU and healthcare contacts they make, we retrospectively analyzed a large regional HIV cohort in Calgary, Canada, ut...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Connors WJ,Krentz HB,Gill MJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined some characteristics of male clinic attenders with urethral chlamydial infection. The prevalence of urethral chlamydial infection among heterosexual men (men who have sex with women [MSW]) was 446 (17%) of 2684 men. Men aged 16-34 years were more likely to have chlamydiae than older men with only c...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Arnot DJ,Manavi K,McMillan A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary HIV can be asymptomatic or result in a severe symptomatic illness. Common symptoms are pyrexia, pharyngitis, malaise, lethargy, maculopapular rash, mucous membrane ulceration, lymphadenopathy and headache. It can be reliably diagnosed by a positive virologic test in the absence of HIV-specific antibodies. Prog...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Apoola A,Ahmad S,Radcliffe K

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the incidence of HIV among women on probation, parole and alternatives to incarceration programs is significant to public health, drivers of this concentrated epidemic among women under community corrections remain understudied. This study examined prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections and the...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： El-Bassel N,Marotta PL,Shaw SA,Chang M,Ma X,Goddard-Eckrich D,Hunt T,Johnson K,Goodwin S,Almonte M,Gilbert L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of gonorrhoea and urogenital chlamydial infection was investigated in female prostitutes in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Epidemiological data were recorded according to a standardized questionnaire. The median age of the prostitutes was 27 years and the median period of prostitution was 2-4 years. Most of the...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Venegas VS,Villafranca P,Madrid JP,Cosenza H,Bygdeman S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of HIV viral load (VL) is the best indicator of success of antiretroviral therapy. We investigated the correlation between results by the Cepheid GeneXpert and a standard of care VL assay (Abbott M2000). This was a prospective study of people living with HIV who attended the department for routine VL measu...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Manavi K,Hodson J,Masuka S,Singo M,Dedicoat K,Osman H

更新日期：2021-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to assess the internal consistency of self-reported condom use among sex workers in Puerto Plata and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. We examined the responses to questions about condom use among 4 cross-sectional samples of sex workers. We compared measures based on: (1) questions using...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Weir SS,Fox LJ,DeMoya A,Gomez B,Guerrero E,Hassig SE

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) prophylaxis may be discontinued when CD4 is > or =200 cells/mm(3) for three months in response to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Unlike CD4, the total lymphocyte count (TLC) is inexpensive and widely available in resource-constrained countries. Paired TLC and CD4 v...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Cheung C,Shuter J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the success of combination antiretroviral therapies, people living with HIV (PLWH) are at an increased risk of developing diverse malignancies, including oral cancer. We here present two cases of PLWH where the early diagnosis of potentially malignant disorders in the oral cavity impacted their treatment and s...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Anaya-Saavedra G,Ramírez-Amador V,Castillejos-García I,Saeb-Lima M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the use of various direct observation therapy-HAART treatment support modalities in Jos, Nigeria. A 12-month observational study enrolling 175 antiretroviral naïve patients into four arms of direct observation therapy-HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy); daily observed therapy (DOT), twice...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Idoko JA,Agbaji O,Agaba P,Akolo C,Inuwa B,Hassan Z,Akintunde L,Badung B,Muazu M,Danang M,Imade G,Sankale JL,Kanki P

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Sexual Health Strategy, the targets of HIV testing uptake in genitourinary medicine clinics (GUM) are set at 40% by year 2004 and 60% by 2007. We assessed the uptake of HIV test amongst GUM clinic attendees, more than six months after introducing an information leaflet in place of verbal pre-test counselling (P...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Das S,Huengsberg M,Radcliffe K

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain gumma is a rare manifestation of the tertiary stage of syphilis. A case of neurosyphilitic gumma was confirmed by the Treponema pallidum polymerase chain reaction in a 46-year-old HIV-positive homosexual man. The patient presented with a severe headache and was hospitalized. A computed tomography scan was pe...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Morshed MG,Lee MK,Maguire J,Zwimpfer T,Willoughby B,Clement J,Crawford RI,Barberie J,Gul S,Jones H

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for salvage treatment is related to the imperfection of current antiretroviral therapy. Sequential therapy with suboptimally suppressive regimens results in a need for this intervention. The aim of salvage treatment is as yet uncertain; virological suppression; immunoenhancement or stability or avoidance of c...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Youle M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the genitourinary medicine clinic setting, the most practical and widely used method of diagnosing Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) is direct microscopy of a wet mount preparation (WMP) of a sample taken from the posterior vaginal fornix. We retrospectively reviewed the potential impact of further limiting WMP to women w...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Bell C,Hough E,Smith A,Greene L

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to explore the epidemiology of HIV and syphilis at population level in young Chinese adults. The study was carried out in six areas of three Chinese provinces: Zhejiang, Yunnan and Shaanxi. All couples attending the compulsory premarital examination were recruited. Routinely taken blood was collected...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Hesketh T,Tang F,Wang ZB,Huang XM,Williams D,Cubitt DW,Tomkins AM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report of infection with HTLV-I associated with severe condylomatosis. Assessment of atypical or extensive genital warts should include testing for this retroviral infection. ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Radja N,Lau R

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases are described of treatment-resistant vulvodynia that responded well to gabapentin. Gabapentin, an anti-epileptic drug, has been used in the treatment of neuropathic pain such as diabetic neuropathy and post-herpetic neuralgia. However, there has been little experience of its use in the relief of symptoms in ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Bates CM,Timmins DJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of human herpes virus-8-associated multicentric Castleman's disease in an HIV-positive patient with hyponatraemia. A 65-year-old man was admitted with relapsing and remitting fever, scattered skin eruptions and hepatosplenomegaly following combination antiretroviral therapy for his HIV infection. Base...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Sasaki H,Maeda T,Hara Y,Osa M,Imai K,Moriguchi K,Mikita K,Fujikura Y,Kaida K,Kawana A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective casenote study was conducted to examine the risk factors for patients who were diagnosed as hepatitis C (HCV)-positive (between 1999 and 2001) in a semi-rural genitourinary medicine (GUM) setting in Staffordshire, UK. There was a remarkable escalation in the number of reported HCV-positive cases, year ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Markos AR

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to audit the management of syphilis in our integrated sexual health clinic according to the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) guideline using the 'Treponemal Infection Care' (TIC) audit tool devised by our clinic. The case notes of patients diagnosed with all stages ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Knapper C,Furness L,Collett M,Lomax N,Browning M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to determine in a rural population the age- and sex-specific prevalence and incidence rates of serological reactivity of 5 common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and their association with HIV-1 antibody status. Of the adult population of two villages (529 adults aged 15 years or more) 29...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Wagner HU,Van Dyck E,Roggen E,Nunn AJ,Kamali A,Schmid DS,Dobbins JG,Mulder DW

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyse in a large sample of HIV-infected subjects the expectations toward complementary therapies (CT) and the characteristics of users. Self-administered anonymous questionnaires were distributed in seven European countries among HIV-infected subjects consecutively attending the offices ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Agnoletto V,Chiaffarino F,Nasta P,Rossi R,Parazzini F

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UK post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) guidelines were updated by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) in 2011. In 2013, we changed policy to omit day 5 PEP follow-up at 56 Dean Street as it was felt clinically unnecessary. This audit compares our performance against BASHH standards for PEP attenders ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： O'Keeffe C,Nwokolo N,McOwan A,Whitlock G

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of seminal high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA were assessed on the quality of semen. Semen samples of 65 men participating in the ongoing Finnish HPV Family Study were collected. Semen analyses were done by the guidelines of the Nordic Association for Andrology. HPV DNA was detected by nested polymer...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Rintala MA,Grénman SE,Pöllänen PP,Suominen JJ,Syrjänen SM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The irregular use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) can result in ART-resistance but can also lead to a sensitization between agents with a cross-sensitivity. We report a case of nevirapine-associated toxic epidermal necrolysis resulting in death in an HIV-infected man. ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Leng K,Lonsdorf A,Hartmann M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As few studies have compared the clinical features of rectal gonorrhoea in men who have sex with men with or without concurrent chlamydial infection, this longitudinal study was undertaken to address this issue. The cohort consisted of 129 men with rectal gonorrhoea, 34 of whom had concurrent chlamydiae. Symptoms of p...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： McMillan A,Young H

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of lung cancer has been increasing among HIV-positive patients. The majority of these cases were in patients previously diagnosed as HIV-positive and treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Here, we report a 56-year-old male patient with lung cancer, who was diagnosed as HIV-positive a...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Sugawara E,Yamamoto K,Umeda S,Suzuki S,Kurata M,Endo Y,Uchibori K,Akashi T,Inase N,Kitagawa M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) rates in women are increasing and many are asymptomatic. Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) are becoming the 'gold standard' for diagnosis. We aimed to establish our asymptomatic TV rates by testing all women attending Oxfordshire's Sexual Health service, regardless of symptoms, using ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Lord E,Newnham T,Dorrell L,Jesuthasan G,Clarke L,Jeffery K,Sherrard J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local genital tract inflammation stimulates leukocyte activity and causes HIV shedding, potentially increasing HIV sexual infectiousness. Although there are available clinical markers for genital tract inflammation, such as urinary leukocyte esterase, none have yet been examined in relation to HIV sexual risk behaviou...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Kalichman SC,Washington C,Grebler T,Kalichman MO,Cherry C,Eaton L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00