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2012-09-01 • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
2012-09-01 • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Incorrect condom use is a common problem that can undermine their prevention impact. We assessed the prevalence of 2 condom use problems, breakage/slippage and partial use, compared prob...
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2015-06-25 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2015-06-25 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE
To estimate the proportion of invalid results generated by a CD4+ T-lymphocyte analyser used by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in field projects and identify factors associ...
To estimate the proportion of invalid results generated by a CD4+ T-lymphocyte analyser used by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in field projects and identify factors associ...
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2012-06-01 • Malawi Medical Journal
2012-06-01 • Malawi Medical Journal
BACKGROUND
Cholera is endemic in Malawi with seasonal outbreaks during the wet season. People living around Lake Chilwa rely on the lake for their water supply. From May 2009 to May ...
Cholera is endemic in Malawi with seasonal outbreaks during the wet season. People living around Lake Chilwa rely on the lake for their water supply. From May 2009 to May ...
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2019-05-02 • PLOS One
2019-05-02 • PLOS One
INTRODUCTION:
HIV self-testing (HIVST) offers a useful addition to HIV testing services and enables individuals to test privately. Despite recommendations to the contrary, repeat HIV...
HIV self-testing (HIVST) offers a useful addition to HIV testing services and enables individuals to test privately. Despite recommendations to the contrary, repeat HIV...
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2013-07-25 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
2013-07-25 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
: Rollout of routine HIV-1 viral load monitoring is hampered by high costs and logistical difficulties associated with sample collection and transport. New strategies are needed to overc...
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2018-03-02 • PLOS One
2018-03-02 • PLOS One
HIV Viral Load and Early Infant Diagnosis technologies in many high burden settings are restricted to centralized laboratory testing, leading to long result turnaround times and patient ...
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2013-08-12 • International Journal of Women's Health
2013-08-12 • International Journal of Women's Health
HIV-infected women are at a higher risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and cancer than women in the general population, partly due to a high prevalence of persistent human p...
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2017-12-02 • BMC Cancer
2017-12-02 • BMC Cancer
BACKGROUND
Médecins Sans Frontières is supporting comprehensive HIV care and treatment for Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) in Guinea, where antiretroviral coverage is low and access to KS treatm...
Médecins Sans Frontières is supporting comprehensive HIV care and treatment for Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) in Guinea, where antiretroviral coverage is low and access to KS treatm...
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2017-02-13 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017-02-13 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa (2014-2015) has prompted an explosion of efforts to understand the transmission dynamics of the virus and to analyze the p...
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2010-06-01 • Epidemiology and Infection
2010-06-01 • Epidemiology and Infection
Measles vaccine efficacy is higher at 12 months than 9 months because of maternal immunity, but delaying vaccination exposes the children most vulnerable to measles mortality to infectio...
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2016-04-21 • AIDS Care
2016-04-21 • AIDS Care
INTRODUCTION
Médecins Sans Frontières supports human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected youth, aged 12-25 years, at a clinic in Khayelitsha, South Africa. Patients are enrolled in...
Médecins Sans Frontières supports human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected youth, aged 12-25 years, at a clinic in Khayelitsha, South Africa. Patients are enrolled in...
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2014-05-01 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
2014-05-01 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
HIV-1 viral load (VL) testing is not widely available in resource-limited settings. Use of finger-prick dried blood spot (FP-DBS) samples could remove barriers related to sample collecti...
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2014-06-21 • Public Health Action
2014-06-21 • Public Health Action
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission 'Option B+' originated in Malawi in 2011 to prevent new infections in infants exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We assessed 12...
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2014-10-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2014-10-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundCD4+ T-cell testing of blood specimens collected in standard EDTA Vacutainer tubes and transported at ambient temperature, must be completed within 48 hours with the BD FACSCou...
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2017-03-28 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
2017-03-28 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
INTRODUCTION
In 2012 Community ART Groups (CAGs), a community-based model of antiretroviral therapy (ART) delivery were piloted in Thyolo District, Malawi as a way to overcome patien...
In 2012 Community ART Groups (CAGs), a community-based model of antiretroviral therapy (ART) delivery were piloted in Thyolo District, Malawi as a way to overcome patien...
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2017-08-11 • BMJ Open
2017-08-11 • BMJ Open
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Estimate the effect of participation in Community ART Groups (CAG) versus individual care on retention-in-care (RIC) on antiretroviral therapy (ART).
DESIGN
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Estimate the effect of participation in Community ART Groups (CAG) versus individual care on retention-in-care (RIC) on antiretroviral therapy (ART).
DESIGN
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