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HIV Transmission Risk Among HIV Seroconcordant and Serodiscordant Couples: Dyadic Processes of Partner Selection
Selecting sex partners of the same HIV status or serosorting is a sexual risk reduction strategy used by many men who have sex with men. However, the effectiveness of serosorting for protection against HIV is potentially limited.
Journal Article, June 30, 2009
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Effect of Pulmonary Tuberculosis on Mortality in Patients Receiving HAART
The authors sought to estimate the effect of ongoing treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis at time of initiation of HAART on subsequent risk of death.
Journal Article, June 30, 2009
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Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Resource-Limited Settings
What strategies work best to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in resource-poor environments?
Journal Article, June 30, 2009
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Health-Care-Associated Infections: The Legislative Perspective and the Pharmacist's Role
Pharmacists are integral to the development of proactive methods to help prevent health-care-associated infections.
Journal Article, June 29, 2009
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Too Few HIV-Infected Patients Are Receiving Care
Only 35% of HIV-infected adults in South Carolina received consistent HIV care from 2004 through 2006.
Journal Article, June 26, 2009
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Long-Term Correlates of Childhood Abuse Among Adults With Severe Mental Illness: Adult Victimization, Substance Abuse, and HIV Sexual Risk Behavior
The prevalence of childhood sexual and physical abuse among persons with severe mental illness (SMI) is disproportionately high. Adults with SMI also engage in high rates of HIV risk behaviors. This study examined the association between childhood abuse and adult victimization, substance abuse, and lifetime HIV sexual risk.
Journal Article, June 24, 2009
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Personal Responsibility, Public Policy, and the Economic Stimulus Plan
The role of personal responsibility in health care vs the role of social factors that influence individual decisions: how might this debate affect the economic stimulus package?
Journal Article, June 18, 2009
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Hepatitis E Vaccine: Current Status and Future Prospects
What are the latest updates on the development of the hepatitis E vaccine?
Journal Article, June 18, 2009
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Pay for Performance in Primary Care in England and California: Comparison of Unintended Consequences
With P-4-P, unintended consequences are not necessarily unavoidable!
Journal Article, June 16, 2009
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Does Valganciclovir Reduce Oral HHV-8?
This study set out to prove anecdotal evidence that valganciclovir reduces oral shedding of HHV-8. Are more trials needed?
Experts And Viewpoints, June 16, 2009
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What Men Who Have Sex With Men Think About the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine
The human papillomavirus vaccine may gain acceptance among men who have sex with men, but will they receive it soon enough?
Journal Article, June 15, 2009
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Pregnancy Outcome in Women Infected With HIV-1 Receiving Combination Antiretroviral Therapy Before Versus After Conception
Antiretroviral effects on pregnancy outcome are examined according to the timing of treatment initiation in a cohort of pregnant women.
Journal Article, June 12, 2009
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Routine Offering of HIV Testing to Hospitalized Pediatric Patients at University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia: Acceptability and Feasibility
Routine counseling and antibody testing of pediatric inpatients can identify large numbers of HIV-seropositive children in high prevalence settings.
Journal Article, June 12, 2009
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Male Circumcision and Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia Trachomatis and Trichomonas Vaginalis: Observations After a Randomised Controlled Trial for HIV Prevention
Are women with circumcised partners less at risk for certain STDs than women with uncircumcised partners? Data from a male circumcision randomized controlled trial are reviewed
Journal Article, June 9, 2009
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Maraviroc in Patients With "3-Class Failure"
A new CC chemokine receptor 5 antagonist joins the HIV armamentarium, but how well does it perform in patients with multiple previous failed antiretroviral regimens?
Experts And Viewpoints, June 9, 2009
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Two New Reports Offer Insight on Care for People With HIV
In this video blog, Paul E. Sax, MD, highlights 2 new papers from specialty journals -- one on inadequate CD4 response to suppressive therapy and the other on those who seem to do well without therapy.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 8, 2009
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Risk Factors for Gastrointestinal Adverse Events in HIV Treated and Untreated Patients
Will antiretroviral treatment lead to improvements in HIV infection-related gastrointestinal symptoms?
Journal Article, June 5, 2009
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More Support for Starting ART Earlier
While the studies may differ in when exactly to begin treatment in asysmptomatic HIV patients, both add to a substantial body of evidence showing that untreated HIV infection has negative consequences.
Journal Article, June 5, 2009
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Evaluation of Adverse Drug Reactions Reported to a Poison Control Center Between 2000 and 2007
What is the likelihood of hospitalization caused by adverse drug reactions from commonly implicated therapeutic groups?
Journal Article, June 4, 2009
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Has HIV Become More Virulent?
Some studies have suggested that as the HIV epidemic progresses, infected patients are presenting at progressively lower CD4-cell counts, perhaps reflecting an increase in the virulence of the virus.
Journal Article, June 2, 2009
