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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…
Corrado Cancedda, Katherine S. Eddens, Olumuyiwa Adebona, Revathi Ravi, Enbal Shacham, Edgar Turner Overton
Socially disadvantaged individuals with HIV experience unacceptably high rates of AIDS and death. The authors developed an adversity index to quantify the impact of demographic and psychosocial factors on HIV care. This retrospective cohort study included 431…
Kenneth Anene Agu, Mohammed Alfa Isah, Dorothy Oqua, Rosalyn C. King, Anthony K. Wutoh
Background: The failure to monitor and link patients from HIV testing to HIV care and retain them in care until they are eligible for ART is a major barrier to early ART initiation. This study evaluated the retention in pre-ART care of HIV-positive patients w…
Sphiwe Madiba
South Africa has seen an increasing population of children and adolescents accessing antiretroviral treatment (ART) in the past seven years. Many of these children are at the age when they should know their HIV diagnosis. We used grounded theory to explore th…
Nazrul Islam Mondal, Rafiqul Islam, Obaidur Rahman, Shafiur Rahman, Nazrul Hoque
The main purpose of this study is to find the awareness level as well as the determinants of awareness on HIV/AIDS among the garments workers in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. To do so, 200 garments workers were interviewed through a structured questionnaire using p…
Joann Lin, Maria Ines Boechat, Jaime G. Deville, Diego Gilsanz, Richard Stiehm, Vicente Gilsanz, Isidro Salusky, Karin Nielsen-Saines
Bone studies of HIV-infected children using dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) suggest bone mineral density (BMD) abnormalities. Pediatric studies are often performed using DXA instead of computed tomography (CT), which accounts for 3-dimensional differences in…
Vincent Guiyedi, Olivier Mounoury, Soraya Boucherit, Pascale Longuet, C. Brunet-François, Eric Kendjo, J. L. Ecobichon, Madeleine Okome-Nkoumou, Catherine Leport, F. Raffi
Objectives: The aims of this study was to analyze the immuno-virologic response after optimised background antiretroviral therapy (OBT) associated to new active antiretroviral treatment (ART) in HIV-1 infected patients with chronic virologic failure. Methods:…
Anna Rosa Garbuglia, Daniele Lapa, Angela Testa, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Ubaldo Visco-Comandini
Background: Patients coinfected with HBV, HDV, HCV and HIV are usually excluded from clinical trials. Data on pegylated interferon treatment in this setting are limited, with predictive factors for HDV virologic success being unknown. Objectives: In this stud…
Magid Kagimu, Sarah Kaye, Walakira Yusuf, David Guwatudde, Charles Rwabukwali, Dick Ainomugisha
Background: In Uganda's HIV prevention strategy religious institutions are encouraged to deliver HIV prevention messages to the general public and to integrate HIV prevention into faith-based activities such as worship, funerals and marriage ceremonies. Howev…
Raymond L. Ownby, Drenna Waldrop-Valverde, Adarsh Kumar, Mahendra Kumar
Thyroid abnormalities have been reported in persons with HIV infection, although data have been inconsistent with respect to its frequency and association with specific medications. The purpose of this study was to explore thyroid system response to thyroid r…
Charles M. Kwobah, Ann W. Mwangi, Julius K. Koech, Gilbert N. Simiyu, Abraham M. Siika
Background: Since 2001, anti-retroviral therapy (ART) has been provided to over 75,000 HIV-infected patients at the USAID-Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) Partnership in western Kenya. Over 1000 of these patients have switched to second-…
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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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