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Religious organizations may be uniquely positioned to address HIV by offering prevention, treatment, or support services to affected populations, but models of effective congregation-based HIV programs in the literature are...

BACKGROUND: Populations such as healthcare workers (HCWs), injection drug users (IDUs), and people engaging in unprotected sex are all at risk of being infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)....

Stavudine is a nucleoside analogue used for the treatment of HIV-1 infection, as part of highly active antiretroviral treatment. In developing countries, stavudine is used widely, owing to low cost...

Guidelines recommend treating HIV-infected patients with pulmonary Mycobacterium kansasii infection only in the presence of multiple positive cultures and clinical and radiographic abnormalities. Some authors suggest a single positive culture...

Background and Objectives: Pharmaco-economics provides a standardized methodology for valid comparisons of interventions in different fields of health care. The role of pharmaco-economics in the safety of blood and blood...

A population-based pharmaco-kinetic (PK) model has been developed for efavirenz based on 16 phase I studies. The combined data set consisted of 334 healthy volunteers, 2,907 efavirenz dose administrations and...

Historically, the availability of heath care in rural areas has been sparse, and specialized care for people living with HIV (PLWH) has been especially problematic. Rural patients are faced with...

BACKGROUND: Many reports point to the beneficial effect of male partner involvement in programs for the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in curbing pediatric HIV infections. This paper summarizes...

OBJECTIVE: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continues to be perceived as a region with very limited HIV epidemiological data, raising many controversies about the status of the...

BACKGROUND: A monoclonal CCR5 antibody, PRO 140 (a humanised form of the PA14 antibody), inhibits CCR5-tropic (R5) HIV-1. This may be an effective new treatment for HIV-infected patients, with the...

OBJECTIVE: To conduct a systematic review of the literature and examine the effectiveness, optimal circumstances, and best practices for strengthening linkages between family planning and HIV interventions. DESIGN: Systematic review...

BACKGROUND: Alcohol use is frequently implicated as a factor in nonadherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). There have not been efforts to systematically evaluate findings across studies. This meta-analysis...