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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…
Maria de las Mercedes Lavandera Díaz, Felix Antonio Cruz Jiminian, Ruben Wernik, Walter Franklin Goldman, Gadi Borkow
Phytochemicals (PHT) are biologically active chemicals produced by plants, non-essential nutrients, with medicinal properties. In this short communication we report the dramatic improvement in the physical and clinical well - being of 9 terminal AIDS patients…
Carlos A. Agudelo, Luis E. Soto-Ramírez, Abraham Katime-Zúñiga, Lorena Cabrera-Ruíz, Hugo Lara-Sánchez, Juan J. Calva
Background: Darunavir (DRV) is a useful antiretroviral treatment in the salvage therapy of multiclass-resistant HIV-infected patients. This study’s aim was to determine the frequency and risk factors for DRV resistance-associated mutations (DRV-RAM) among DRV…
Jill Hanass-Hancock, Ilaria Regondi, Leonie van Egeraat, Stephanie Nixon
Background: In the era of enhanced access to ART, many people live longer lives but with episodes of disability resulting from HIV, HIV-related conditions, and/or as side-effects of ART. It is crucial to understand the extent of disability among people living…
Chatté Adawaye, Erick Kamangu, Ali Mahamat Moussa, Bertin Tchoumbou, Dolores Vaira, Michel Moutschen
Over 75% of people infected with HIV live in countries where health resources are very limited for the diagnosis and biological monitoring of people infected by the virus. In resource-limited settings, the use of DBS is a valuable alternative. It has provided…
Ekaete Francis Asuquo, Prisca Adejumo, Josephine Etowa, Adebayo Adejumo
HIV/AIDS currently is a major cause of disability and mortality especially in sub-Saharan Africa. As the population affected by HIV/AIDS increases, so does the burden of this chronic disease and the challenges associated with caring. HIV scourge in Nigeria ha…
Martínez Pedro Ariel, Kourí Vivian, Blanco Orestes, Capó Virginia, Abad Yoandra, Alemán Yoan, Verdasquera Denis, Jiménez Narciso, Caballero Iraida, Fleites Gilberto, Ugarte Yaumara, Calderón Odalys, Álvarez Alina, Ulrich Hengge
Despite the progress has been reached with Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) research , there are gaps in the knowledge of viral induced oncogenesis. The aim of the present study was to identify possible associations between HHV-8 subtypes, HHV-8 loads and clinical…
Georgina N. Odaibo, David O. Olaleye
Background: Studies have shown Hepatitis E Virus to be a causative agent of acute and chronic hepatitis in severely immunocompromised patients such as organ transplant recipients and person with HIV infection. This study was designed to determine the burden o…
Aline Domingos Pinto Ruppert, Alexandre de Matos Soeiro, Maria Carolina F. de Almeida, Vera Luiza Capelozzi, Carlos V. Serrano Jr.
Objectives: This study considers 489 autopsies of HIV/AIDS patients who died from acute respiratory failure and describes the demographic data, etiology, and histological pulmonary findings of HIV associated diseases, comparing results before and after introd…
Ofonime Mark Ogba, Lydia Nyong Abia-Bassey, James Epoke, Baki Idasa Mandor, Godwin Dickson Iwatt
This study was designed to identify and characterize the Candida species isolated from lower respiratory tract infections among HIV positive patients and to determine the prevalence rates of Candida infections among these subjects. Two early morning expectora…
Georgina Njideka Odaibo, David Olufemi Olaleye
Background: HIV-2 is comparatively less pathogenic with slow progression of infection to clinical disease and consequently there is less of information on the occurrence of HIV-2 associated disease than HIV-1. We hereby describe some laboratory profiles of in…
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