What you need to knowOlder people, and those with frailty and multiple comorbidities can have complex medication regimens, which can be challenging for patients, carers, and healthcare practitioners to manage. Some patients choose not to take all their medications (intentional non-adherence)—this ...
Individuals who are not infected with HIV but are at risk of becoming infected can also see their doctor for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by taking ARV medication to prevent infection. To achieve the best preventative result, those at risk of exposure must take medicine daily and see a doc...
Social work Factors affecting HIV medication adherence among individuals living with HIV /AIDS WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Tonya Edmond BiswasBipashaThis dissertation study seeks to understand, explore and predict factors associated with HIV medication adherence among cohorts of individuals enrolled ...
The ongoing spread of COVID-19 has been fueled by the emergence of variants in evolving lineages of SARS-CoV-2. Such variants generally carrymutationsthat strengthen characteristics such as thevirus’sability to infect individuals (including individuals who arevaccinatedand who previously had COVID-...
about which partners to approach with regards to their sexual practices. In contrast to serosorting, which requires individuals to know their HIV status, users can and do use risk sorting by seeking out partners based on their sexual practices. For example, through viewing others’ profiles, a ...
the population distribution of the genes for smoking (genetic epidemiology). (Genes determine an individual'sinheritedcharacteristics.) Only a small fraction of individuals who start smoking as an adolescent will become nicotine dependent. So, what determines which individuals will become nicotine-...
Help Search My account Sign in In subject area:Social Sciences AIDS is a condition caused by HIV infection that leads to severe immunosuppression, making individuals vulnerable to opportunistic infections, malignancies, and central nervous system degeneration. It is a global epidemic that affects million...
Combination treatment is essential because taking only one class of medication allows the virus to become resistant to the medication. There are now pills that contain multiple drugs in a single pill, so many people take a single pill per day. When starting ART, medical professionals may perform...
Sexual problems are common among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBM) after diagnosis with HIV. However, these are often overlooked in care and research, where sexual risk reduction and biomedical aspects of sexual health tend to dominate. We conducted a rapid scoping revi...
We aimed to evaluate the combined effect of the defocusing and adaptation interventions, expecting participants to show a reduced willingness to trade off time for the eradication of the virus. Measures Time trade-off for a cure To assess the willingness of PWH to take medication for an HIV ...