Disparities in Sexually Transmitted Infection/HIV Testing, Contraception, and Emergency Contraception Care Among Adolescent Sexual Minority Women Who Are Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Source : https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(22)00621-8/fulltext
Sexual minority women and racial/ethnic minority women in the United States are at increased risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancy. Yet, we know little about STI/HIV testing...
Discussion: There is an unmet need for improved SRH service delivery for all adolescent women and for services that are not biased by sex of sexual contact(s) and race/ethnicity.
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Conclusion: To strengthen the identification of HIV patients in the window period, appropriate NGS examination and the follow-up of patients' special lifestyle and medical history will help the judgment and treatment of the disease.
Twenty years of Prevention of Mother to Child HIV Transmission: research to implementation at a national referral hospital in Uganda
Source : https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ahs/article/view/230578
Keywords: PMTCT Research; PMTCT Program; sub-Saharan Africa. Background: Over 90% of new paediatric HIV infections are acquired through mother to child transmission. Prevention of mother to child HIV transmission (PMTCT)...
Conclusion: Perinatal HIV prevention clinical trials conducted at MU-JHU provided evidence to inform WHO PMTCT guidelines. MNRH program evaluation demonstrated the significant decline in MTCT rates over the last two decades.
Assessment of cardiovascular risk factors among HIV-infected patients aged 50 years and older in Cameroon
Source : https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/publichealth.2022034
Background Increasing the longevity of people living with HIV (PLHIV) around the world has been accompanied by an increase in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and morbidity....
Conclusions: Our study indicated an overall risk of cardiovascular events in 10 years is 16.10%, with the main conditional risk factor being hypertriglyceridemia and alcohol consumption, which appeared to triple the risk of CVD among PLHIV.
Similar costs and outcomes for differentiated service delivery models for HIV treatment in Uganda - BMC Health Services Research
Source : https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-022-08629-4
This cost-outcome study estimated, from the perspective of the service provider, the total annual cost per client on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and total annual cost per client virally suppressed (defined...
Conclusion: These findings support the scale-up of the DSDMs so as to provide an optimal package of client-centred options to meet the range of client situations and needs. Future research could explore the savings to clients, their increased convenience, adherence and treatment success over longer periods of time.