There are other explanations for the fall, however, including wider testing and encouraging people to start taking HIV medicines as soon as they’re diagnosed. This makes them much less likely to pass on the infection because it cuts the amount of virus in their genital fluids. Whether...
Moving from the northern reaches of the Boreal Forest to the base of Mount Ararat in Turkey to the streets of New York, The Messenger brings us face-to-face with a remarkable variety of human-made perils that have devastated thrushes, warblers, orioles, tanagers, grosbeaks and many other ...
HIV diagnosis ratesInternational comparionNew ZealandBackground After a rise in the early 2000s in the number of new HIV diagnoses among MSM in New Zealand, also witnessed in many developed countries, in 2011 the number dropped by 34% compared to 2010. To assess relative progress on control ...
Community-based opportunistic self-completion surveying for sexual health programming is common among men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) in Europe, being used to generate evidence of unmet prevention need, for behavioural surveillance and as a platform for advocating HIV precautions. However, comparing ...
Since the start of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, more than 36 million adults and children have died of HIV, Even so, the death rate worldwide has dropped by more than 50% in the last decade. This includes many of the hardest-hit countries in Africa. ...
Using a target population-informed design for a mobile phone app supporting PrEP adherence in an adolescent PrEP implementation study, we observed higher rates of PrEP adherence among those who frequently used the app, although the difference was not statistically significant. App use dropped by 50%...
When patients were treated a second or third time, recurrence rates dropped to 28 and 0 percent, respectively. The probability of successfully treating an individual lesion at first infrared coagulation was 81 percent and 93 percent when retreated. HIV-positive patients were twice as likely to ...
Ted Cohen8, Kenneth Mayer9, Joshua A Salomon10, Zuhong Lu11 & Christopher Dye12 We conducted a prospective cohort study among HIV-negative MSM aged 18 years or older between 2007 and 2012 in Beijing, China to measure the rates of incident HIV and identify risk factors for infec...
HIV-positive patients eligible for antiretroviral therapy based on this thresholdhave been enrolledintreatment. daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org 2009 年,斯威士兰试行了及早采取基于 350CD4 细胞计数阈值的抗逆转录病毒疗法。 daccess-ods.un.org ...
In a 106-person Spanish trial of interferon plus ribavirin for HCV infection in people with HIV, study participants with genotype 2 or 3 had HCV response rates seven times higher than people with genotype 1 or 4.²⁷ Still, everyone with HIV infection should be tested for HCV, t...