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Browsing Family Medicine by Subject "Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)"
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(Public Library of Science, 2015-09-02)BACKGROUND HIV increases women’s risk for high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) infection and invasive cervical cancer. South Africa has a high HIV prevalence but low cervical cancer screening coverage. Self-collection ...
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(New Media Publishing JHB, 2015-05)Antiretroviral treatment (ART) has dramatically changed the course of (HIV) infection, allowing for control of the virus in the peripheral circulation, signifi cant reconstitution of the immune system and achievement of ...
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(New Media Publishing, 2016-01)Antiretroviral treatment (ART) has dramatically changed the course of (HIV) infection, allowing for control of the virus in the peripheral circulation, significant reconstitution of the immune system and achievement of ...
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(MedPharm Publications, 2020-12-03)BACKGROUND : There are significant number of patients who are on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) not virally suppressed, which is a huge clinical challenge. Social support as a non-pharmacological factor, ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2022-11-15)Cervical cancer is largely preventable through early detection, but screening uptake remains low among black women in South Africa. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with ...
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(African Field Epidemiology Network, 2022-09-20)INTRODUCTION : globally, cervical cancer remains a public health problem. It is ranked the fourth most common cause of women's cancer. In South Africa, it was the second most common cancer diagnosed in 2012. The disease ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2019-11)Gert Sibande District is a predominantly rural district in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa (SA), with a population of just over 1.1 million. It has a high prevalence of HIV infection and pregnancy-related hypertensive ...
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(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-04-06)Please read abstract in article.
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2018-10)Opioid use disorders, including heroin use disorders, account for 70% of the global burden of drug-related disease and disproportionately affect people who have unmet social, emotional, economic, health and other ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-12-07)BACKGROUND : Only 66% of South African people living with HIV (PLWH) are virologically suppressed. Therefore, it is important to develop strategies to improve outcomes. OBJECTIVES : Assess the effect of interventions on ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016-05-31)HIV drug resistance has been described in all antiretroviral drug classes and threatens the long-term success of HIV treatment. Here, we describe the first reported case of acquired resistance to the integrase strand ...
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(Elsevier, 2014)BACKGROUND : Abdominal lymphadenopathy in HIV remains a challenge due to inaccessibility of lymph nodes and multitude of causes. The diagnostic yield of EUS FNA in HIV-infected patients with abdominal lymphadenopathy ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-10)Task shifting has enabled South Africa (SA) to rapidly expand its HIV treatment programme. This has been achieved by training and mentoring primary-care nurses in nurse initiation and management of antiretroviral therapy ...
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(BioMed Central, 2020-09)BACKGROUND: People who use drugs including people who inject drugs (PWUD/ID), sex workers (SWs) and men who have sex with men (MSM) are at increased risk of HIV and viral hepatitis infection. Limited epidemiological data ...
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(Unisa Press, 2017)This scoping review attempts to contextualise the current state of research regarding responding to co-morbid depression and HIV in primary healthcare, identify the gaps in research and develop appropriate recommendations. ...
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(European Respiratory Society, 2015-08)HIV-infected persons not only have higher rates of smoking than the general population, but are also unusually vulnerable to the associated adverse health effects, both infective and non-infective in origin. Indeed, in ...
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(BioMed Central, 2018-09-14)BACKGROUND : South Africa’s tuberculosis burden is the third highest globally and is closely associated with the country’s devastating HIV epidemic. The separation of HIV and TB services in primary healthcare services in ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-08)BACKGROUND : As oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) becomes the standard of prevention globally, its potential effect on HIV incidence in clinical trials of new prevention interventions is unknown, particularly for trials ...
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(Wiley Open Access, 2020-05)INTRODUCTION : Global guidelines emphasize the ethical obligation of investigators to help participants in HIV-endpoint trials reduce HIV risk by offering an optimal HIV prevention package. Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis ...
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