Category Archives: Treatment

Antiretroviral regimens for patients with HIV who fail first-line antiretroviral therapy

2007

BACKGROUND: Highly active antiretroviral therapy has reduced the morbidity and mortality of patients with HIV/AIDS. A common first-line ART regimen includes a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) and two nucleoside...

Treatment of active tuberculosis in HIV-coinfected patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

2010

Rationale: Patients with HIV-related tuberculosis (TB) have an increased risk of death, TB treatment failure, and relapse. There are several areas of uncertainty regarding the treatment of active TB in...

Complementary therapies for the treatment of HIV: In search of the evidence

2005

The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is widespread. Yet, little is known about the evidence supporting its use in HIV/AIDS. We conducted a systematic review of randomized clinical...

Epidemiology of HIV-related neuropathy: A systematic literature review

2012

We sought to identify and summarize the incidence and prevalence of neuropathy among HIV patients and subgroups. A systematic search of the literature was performed using MEDLINE and EMBASE. The...

Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of simplified versus continued protease inhibitor-based antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1-infected patients

2003

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of simplified maintenance therapy (SMT) compared with continued protease inhibitor (PI) therapy. Design: Meta-analysis of nine randomized controlled trials in which 833 patients...

Baseline CD4+ cell count, not viral load, correlates with virologic suppression induced by potent antiretroviral therapy

2001

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between viral load suppression and baseline viral load as well as that between viral load suppression and baseline CD4(+) cell count. DESIGN: Meta-analysis of published...

Is the sexual behaviour of HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy safe or risky in Sub-Saharan Africa? Meta-analysis and meta-regression

2012

Background: Reports on the sexual behavior of people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) are inconsistent. We selected 14 articles that compared the sexual behavior of people with and without ART for...

Association of HIV and ART with cardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2013

BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest burden of HIV in the world and a rising prevalence of cardiometabolic disease; however, the interrelationship between HIV, antiretroviral therapy (ART) and cardiometabolic...

Evaluation and management of dyslipidemia in patients with HIV infection

2002

OBJECTIVE: Persons with HIV infection develop metabolic abnormalities related to their antiretroviral therapy and HIV infection itself. The objective of this study was to summarize the emerging evidence for the...

Costs and efficiency of integrating HIV/AIDS services with other health services: A systematic review of evidence and experience

2012

OBJECTIVES: To review the literature on the potential efficiency gains of integrating HIV services with other health services. DESIGN: Systematic literature review. Search of electronic databases, manual searching and snowball...

Task shifting for the delivery of pediatric antiretroviral treatment: A systematic review

2014

BACKGROUND: Pediatric antiretroviral treatment coverage in resource-limited settings continues to lag behind adults. Task shifting is an effective approach broadly used for adults, which some countries have also adopted for...

Association between vitamin D and hepatitis C virus infection: A meta-analysis

2013

AIM: To evaluate the association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and sustained virological response (SVR) in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected individuals. METHODS: Relevant studies were identified by systematically searching MEDLINE...

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