Based on the definitions published by Statistics Canada, an urban residence was defined as living in locations with a population equal to or greater than 30,000 [44]. Immigration status was determined through the following question: “What is your current legal status in Canada?” Canadian ...
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, 71., 72. within each country in SSA. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Statistics Online Tool was used to determine prevalence of amphetamine and cocaine use by country. If no data were available, then PubMed and Google Scholar search functions were used with each country's ...
Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly selected adult HIV-positive patients who attended the Care and Treatment Center at Muhimbili National Hospital, located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from September 2021 to February 2022. Data was collected using a questionnaire that ...
in the urban settings of Kenya [22]. The prevalence was also lower than the 35% reported globally [16], 53% in Ethiopia [17], 28.7% found in Tanzania [32] and almost equals to 22.6% found in Uganda [18]. This variation could be due to the differences in the geographical locations ...
We will compute descriptive statistics on baseline variables overall and by randomization group to characterize the study population and to detect any baseline imbalance. For continuous measures, we will report the mean, standard deviation, median, interquartile range, and the minimum and maximum. For...
There has been a surge in the emergence of HIV-1 drug resistance in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) due to poor drug-adherence and limited access to viral load testing, the current standard for treatment-monitoring. It is estimated that only 75% of people living with HIV (PLWH) ...
Other data from a large multi-country program in 198 HIV clinics in Kenya (69 clinics), Mozambique (33 clinics), Rwanda (44 clinics) and Tanzania (52 clinics) revealed that the sex-related differences in the relationship between age, mortality and LTFU applied to both younger patients on ...
Magambo, K. A.et al. Utility of urine and serum lateral flow assays to determine the prevalence and predictors of cryptococcal antigenemia in HIV-positive outpatients beginning antiretroviral therapy in Mwanza, Tanzania.J Int AIDS Soc.17, 19040 (2014). ...
V1/V2 forms a four-stranded β-sheet domain, in which sequence diversity and glycosylation are largely segregated to strand-connecting loops. PG9 recognition involves electrostatic, sequence-independent and glycan interactions: the latter account for over half the interactive surface but are of ...