Q&A: Patients With HIV Experience “Striking” Differences in Cancer Incidence
Both AIDS-defining and non-AIDS-defining cancers are more common in patients with HIV aged less than 65, with further disparities based on race and sex....
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Willingness to Use PrEP Varies Among Black Cisgender Women
Individual, interpersonal, and structural factors influence the willingness to use PrEP among Black cisgender women, and improving PrEP use in this group will require interventions on multip...
Patient Characteristics Influence Rates of PrEP Discontinuation
Adherence to daily PrEP is high among patients with commercial insurance, but most patients discontinue PrEP within the first year of starting it, according to results published in Pharmacoe...
Disparities Found in Rates of PrEP Discontinuation
Disparities exist in rates of PrEP reversal and abandonment, according to findings published in AIDS. Lorraine T. Dean, ScD, and colleagues examined geographic differences in PrEP reversal a...
Combining Measures May Improve Detection of Poor Neurocognition in HIV
Combining frailty measures may the improve detection of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND), according to findings published in AIDS. David Moore, PhD, and colleagues assessed the...
Implementation of pharmacist-led services for sexual and gender minorities: A multisite descriptive report.
In an effort to expedite the publication of articles, AJHP is posting manuscripts online as soon as possible after acceptance. Accepted manuscripts have been peer-reviewed and copyedited, bu...
Expanding expedited partner therapy and HIV prophylaxis in the emergency department.
In an effort to expedite the publication of articles, AJHP is posting manuscripts online as soon as possible after acceptance. Accepted manuscripts have been peer-reviewed and copyedited, bu...
Detection of the Proteome and Its Post-translational Modifications and the Nature of the Unobserved (Dark) Proteome in PeptideAtlas.
This study describes a new release of the PeptideAtlas proteomics resource (build 2023-10) providing protein sequence coverage, matched mass spectrometry (MS) spectra, selected post-transla...
Study on the hydrolytic degradation behaviour of bictegravir by LC-PDA-Q/TOF-MS/MS NMR and in silico toxicity assessment.
Forced degradation studies provide rapid access to degradation products (DPs), where structural characterization and assessment of their potential toxicity are vital for pharmaceutical safet...
Liver Disease Further Impairs Cognition in Patients With HIV
Patients with HIV who had highly active NASH and liver fibrosis were more likely to have cognitive impairment than patients with HIV and no liver disease....
Developing a prototype web-based decision aid for adults with hearing loss.
To develop a prototype of a decision aid to be used on a website for adults with hearing loss. Development was guided by the International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) and include...
Beyond HIV Risk: PrEP Tied to Emotional & Social Benefits
Beyond reducing HIV risk, the benefits of PrEP include less anxiety and more intimacy, but physicians do not often discuss these advantages with patients...
Effect of HIV infection on plasma exposure to first-line TB drugs and target attainment in children.
Whether HIV infection adversely affects exposure to first-line TB drugs in children is debatable. It is also not known whether HIV infection increases the risk of plasma underexposure or ov...
Demographics of Youth With Newly Diagnosed Acute/Recent HIV Infection in Adolescent Trials Network 147: Early Treatment of Acute HIV Infection.
Gay, bisexual, and other cisgender men who have sex with men, and racial minority youth are at elevated risk of acquiring HIV infection. The Adolescent Trials Network 147 recruited youth wit...
Binge drinking and condom negotiation behaviours among adolescent girls and young women living in Cape Town, South Africa: sexual control and perceived personal power.
Condom use among young people in South Africa has declined in recent years and adolescent girls and young women continue to bear the highest incidence of HIV in the country. Young women who ...
Chemokines: A key driver for inflammation in protozoan infection.
Chemokines belong to the group of small proteins within the cytokine family having strong chemo-attractant properties. In most cases, the strong immuno-modulatory role of chemokines is cruci...
Perspective of medical undergraduates in India towards the LGBTQIA+ population: a short insight into changes in the medical curriculum.
Understanding the attitudes of medical students towards individuals from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA+) community is a prerequis...
In Patients With HIV, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Increases Cardiovascular Risk
Patients with HIV and NAFLD experience a greater risk for adverse cardiovascular outcomes than those with HIV alone....
Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics associated with retention in care among adults living with HIV and severe mental illness and reasons for loss to follow-up in Uganda: a mixed-methods study.
This study aimed to determine the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics associated with retention in care and reasons for loss to follow-up (LTFU) among people living with HIV (PLWH...
Barbers' compliance with biological hazard preventive measures and predictors in selected towns, Southeast Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.
The barber's profession exposes their customers to several health risks. Negligence when using sharp instruments in barbershops can increase the risk of bloodborne infections, resulting in s...
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