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The World Journal of AIDS is an international journal uniquely devoted to HIV/AIDS with an objective to provide the best quality information, research data and education on all aspects of HIV/AIDS that help in better understanding of HIV/AIDS and improve the quality of patient care. The journal aims to foster the exch…
Lauren Toledo, Eleanor McLellan-Lemal, Faith L. Henderson, Poloko M. Kebaabetswe, 1 1
Recent clinical trials have shown that a daily dose of oral TDF/FTC pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is effective in reducing human immunodeficiency (HIV) risk. Understanding trial participants’ perspectives about retention and PrEP adherence is critical to in…
Eméfah C. Loccoh, Deladem Azouma, Kevin Fiori Jr., Jennifer Schechter, Sesso Gbeleou, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, 1 1, 1 1
Background: Despite efforts to expand prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in resource-limited settings, only 53% of women in sub-Saharan Africa receive adequate PMTCT services. Understanding factors that enable successful program complet…
Md. Shafiur Rahman, Md. Nuruzzaman Khan, Md. Nazrul Islam Mondal, Md. Shamsher Alam, Kazi Mohiuddin Ahmed, Md. Rafiqul Islam
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has grown on an unprecedented scale since it was first recognized, and presently it is considered as a well known global public health crisis. In making the health policy where millions of populations are at risk, it is necessary to unde…
Huylmer Lucena Chaves, Henrique Pires Moreira, Hayato Augusto Hossoé Corrêa, William Browne de Oliveira Machado, Rian Brito Teles, Lucigleyson Ribeiro do Nascimento, Janedson Baima Bezerra Filho, Camilla Camuza Coelho Rabelo Queiroz, Danilo Gonçalves Nóbrega, Ana Carolina Vasconcelos Moreira, Maria Carolina Nunes Albano de Meneses, Fabrício de Maicy Bezerra, Melissa Soares Medeiros, 1 1, 1 1
Objective: Due to the lack of studies assessing hypovitaminosis D and secondary hyperparathyroidism in Brazilian HIV-infected population, especially in the northeastern population, this study aimed to determine the profile of these conditions in patients infe…
Catherine Wanjiru Gichuhi, Daniel Kariuki, Andrew Nyerere, Malkit Riyat
Vitamin D deficiency may be more prevalent among HIV-positive patients than in the general population due to HIV disease-related factors. This study examined the effects of HIV infection and use of antiretroviral drugs in serum vitamin D levels in HIV patient…
Krishnaraj Raja, Chockalingam Chandrasekar, O. R. Krishnarajasekhar, Narayanan Ravichandran, Satagopan Kumar, Gurusamy Manoharan, Irudayaraj Amala Sharmila
Indroduction: National Aids control Organisation in India implementing National AIDS control program uses WHO’s immunological criteria to screen virological failure. Using immunological criteria to detect virological failure has to be assessed. Predicting vir…
Bekana Kebede, Abebaw Gebeyehu, Sonia Jain, Shelly Sun, Richard Haubrich, 1 1
Background: Many HIV-infected infants and children die from HIV related causes without their HIV status being known or receiving HIV care. All HIV exposed infants should be tested by Dried Blood Spots (DBS)-PCR before or at 6 weeks of age. Testing is a crucia…
Sergey Makarov
This article describes an alternative approach to the problem of AIDS. The author proposes a new theory. In this theory, HIV is not a “classic virus”, but a parasitic program that does not have a material carrier.
Anil Kumar Gupta, Vandana Dabla, Bipin Chandra Joshi, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Jiban Jyoti Baishya, Abhinav Gupta
Retention of the patients in HIV-care is critical for success of Anti Retroviral Treatment (ART) programme to reduce HIV-related morbidity & mortality and prevent emergence of drug resistance. In last decade in Delhi (April 2004 to March 2014), overall 24% HI…
Manisha Ghate, Sunil Zirpe, Nilam Gurav, Ramesh Paranjape, Bharat Rewari, Raman Gangakhedkar
Background: India has scaled up ART programme very rapidly. Though there are reports on retention of patients in the national programme, data on transfer out patients within the ART centers are scanty in India. Methods: This is a retrospective study of patien…
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The World Journal of AIDS is an international journal uniquely devoted to HIV/AIDS with an objective to provide the best quality information, research data and education on all aspects of HIV/AIDS that help in better understanding of HIV/AIDS and improve the quality of patient care. The journal aims to foster the exch… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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