Category Archives: Population(s)

OBJECTIVE AND DESIGN: People living with HIV (PLH) suffer disproportionately from the chronic diseases exacerbated by smoking tobacco. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to establish the relative prevalence...

INTRODUCTION: Conventional antiretroviral therapy against HIV infections is threatening to become outdated due to the low chemical, physical, biological, and pharmacokinetic characteristics of therapeutic molecules, followed by the high chance...

Since December 2019, the pneumonia cases infected with 2019 novel coronavirus have appeared, posing a critical threat to global health. In this study, we performed a meta-analysis to discover the...

Climate change and HIV/AIDS represent two of the greatest threats to human health in the 21st century. However, limitations in understanding the complex relationship between these syndemics continue to constrain...

Key take-home messages Among reported HIV cases with a known race/ethnicity in Canada in 2017, 6.3% were among individuals from Latin America. In 2018, Latinx persons in the U.S. were...

Key take-home messages There is wide support of take-home naloxone programs as they are associated with decreased mortality, but there is some evidence that take-home naloxone alone may not be...

BACKGROUND: Screening and treating premalignant cervical lesions (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2+ [CIN2+]) is an effective way to prevent cervical cancer, and recommendations exist for the monitoring of treatment success. Yet,...

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends an additional dose of measles-containing vaccine (MCV) for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected children receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy following immune reconstitution. We conducted...

INTRODUCTION: Contrasting findings have been published regarding the effect of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on tuberculosis (TB) drug pharmacokinetics (PK). OBJECTIVES: The aim of this systematic review was to investigate...

Key take-home messages HIV self-testing is highly acceptable but could be cost prohibitive, especially for individuals at high risk of acquiring HIV and communities with high rates of poverty, HIV...

A higher incidence of plantar verrucae, commonly known as plantar warts, has been shown in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. Several strains of human papillomavirus are associated with...

Background: The effect of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on the natural history of anal high-risk HPV and anal lesion progression is not well established. We reviewed the association of ART and other...