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Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Clinically Driven versus Routine Laboratory Mo...
Background Despite funding constraints for treatment programmes in Africa, the costs and economic consequences of routine laboratory monitoring for efficacy and toxicity of... -
Economic Impact of HIV and Antiretroviral Therapy on Education Supply in High...
BACKGROUND:We set out to estimate, for the three geographical regions with the highest HIV prevalence, (sub-Saharan Africa [SSA], the Caribbean and the Greater Mekong sub-region... -
Rising population cost for treating people living with HIV in the UK, 1997-2013.
BACKGROUND\ud \ud The number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) is increasing in the UK. This study estimated the annual population cost of providing HIV services in the UK,... -
C3-PRO: Connecting ResearchKit to the Health System Using i2b2 and FHIR
A renewed interest by consumer information technology giants in the healthcare domain is focused on transforming smartphones into personal health data storage devices. With the... -
Estimating the Impact of State Budget Cuts and Redirection of Prevention Reso...
BACKGROUND: In the wake of a national economic downturn, the state of California, in 2009-2010, implemented budget cuts that eliminated state funding of HIV prevention and... -
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DNA extraction columns contaminated with murine sequences.
Sequences of the novel gammaretrovirus, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) have been described in human prostate cancer tissue, although the amounts of DNA... -
One Health/EcoHealth capacity building programs in South and South East Asia:...
Background Although One Health (OH) or EcoHealth (EH) have been acknowledged to provide comprehensive and holistic approaches to study complex problems, like zoonoses and... -
Long-term costs and health impact of continued global fund support for antire...
textabstractBackground: By the end of 2011 Global Fund investments will be supporting 3.5 million people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 104 low- and middle-income countries.... -
Transmission of MRSA between Companion Animals and Infected Human Patients Pr...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a significant pathogen in both human and veterinary medicine. The importance of companion animals as reservoirs of human... -
Treatable causes of fever among children under five years in a seasonal malar...
Fever remains a major public health problem. In Burkina Faso, more than half of febrile children are considered not to be infected by malaria. This study prospectively assessed... -
Integrating HIV care into primary care services: quantifying progress of an i...
Abstract: Background: Integration of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care into primary care services is one strategy proposed to achieve universal access to antiretroviral... -
False Positive HIV Diagnoses in Resource Limited Settings: Operational Lesson...
BACKGROUND: Access to HIV diagnosis is life-saving; however the use of rapid diagnostic tests in combination is vulnerable to wrongly diagnosing HIV infection when both... -
Predictors of Retention among Men Attending STI Clinics in HIV Prevention Pro...
Background Retention is critical in HIV prevention programs and clinical research. We studied retention in the three modeled scenarios of primary prevention programs, cohort... -
Seroprevalence of Antibodies to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Vi...
To assess the extent of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A (H5N1) virus transmission, we conducted sero-epidemiologic studies among close contacts exposed to H5N1 cases... -
How to estimate the cost of point-of-care CD4 testing in program settings: an...
Integrating POC CD4 testing technologies into HIV counseling and testing (HCT) programs may improve post-HIV testing linkage to care and treatment. As evaluations of these... -
Impact of HIV-associated conditions on mortality in people commencing anti-re...
Objectives To identify associations between specific WHO stage 3 and 4 conditions diagnosed after ART initiation and all cause mortality for patients in resource-limited... -
Randomized Controlled Trials of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment in Africa: ...
Introduction To effectively address HIV/AIDS in Africa, evidence on preventing new infections and providing effective treatment is needed. Ideally, decisions on which... -
Ears of the Armadillo: Global Health Research and Neglected Diseases in Texas
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have been recently identified as significant public health problems in Texas and elsewhere in the American South. A one-day forum on the...
