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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…
Amy Kaler, Arif Alibhai, Walter Kipp, Tom Rubaale, Joseph Konde-Lule
Stigma has been of tremendous concern in the AIDS epidemic. In this paper we investigate reported experiences of stigma in western Uganda, as related by coresidents treatment partners (TPs) of people receiving treatment through a community-based treatment pro…
Henry Fomundam, Abraham Tesfay, Andrew Maranga, Lucia Chanetsa, Vieira Muzoola, Frederick Oyaro
Background: Late diagnosis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and delayed commencement of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa is known to contribute to high morbidity and mortality. It is therefore, prudent to develop innovative ap…
Amsale Cherie, Yemane Berhane
Background: Understanding ecological factors that influence risky sexual behavior of adolescents is vital in designing and implementing sexual risk reduction interventions in specific contexts. Interventions undertaken without understanding the critical facto…
Njoku Ola Ama, Enock Ngome
Much of the sexual and reproductive health services and service delivery including family planning target women of child bearing ages (15 - 49 years) and sometimes men. Hardly are there programmes/interventions that specifically target the needs of the elderl…
Jonas Rigodon, Keith Joseph, Salmaan Keshavjee, Corrado Cancedda, Mona Haidar, Nicolas Lesia, Limpho Ramangoaela, Jennifer Furin
Community health workers (CHWs) have long played an important role in the management of complex health problems, especially in resource-poor settings. Although there is a large literature regarding the use of CHWs around the world, there is little detail abou…
Glenn J. Wagner, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Dickens Akena, Noeline Nakasujja, Elialilia Okello, Emmanuel Luyirika, Seggane Musisi
Purpose: Despite high levels of depression among persons living with HIV (PLWHIV), little research has investigated the relationship of depression to work status and income in PLWHIV in sub-Saharan Africa, which was the focus of this analysis. Methods: Baseli…
Heather Worth
Introduction: There is a global call for structural approaches to HIV that go beyond awareness and HIV testing to approach prevention work via the social and economic drivers of the epidemic. Papua New Guinea is the epicentre of the HIV epidemic in the Pacifi…
Dushyantha T. Jayaweera, Gary E. Pakes
Background: The effect of reducing ritonavir boosting doses on the efficacy and safety of fosamprenavir-based regimens has not been well studied. Methods: In a 52-week, phase 4, open-label, single-center pilot study, 26 antiretroviral-naive, HIV-infected pati…
Samuel V. Nuvor, Hilton Whittle, Sarah Rowland-Jones, Assan Jaye
Context: Human Natural Killer T cells are T lymphocytes that express an invariant αβ T cells receptors and NK cells receptors. They regulate innate and adaptive immune response but are susceptible to HIV-1 infection. Objective: We compare the frequency and th…
Alessia Uglietti, Sergio Lo Caputo, Marinella Lauriola, Michele De Gennaro, Elisabetta Chiesa, Massimo Coen, Roberta Terzi, Dorothy H. Bray, Renato Maserati, Daria Trabattoni, Mario Clerici
Objectives: To evaluate the effects of starting therapy with either Truvada (TVD) or Combivir (CBV) in combination with Efavirenz (EFV) or a boosted Protease Inhibitor (LPV/r, ATV/r, fAPV/r and SQV/r) on clinical, immunological, and virological parameters in…
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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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