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... infection and TB and opportunistic infection and Sub-Saharan Africa (5 articles, review) • Tuberculosis and HAART and HIV infection and Africa (3 articles, review) • Tuberculosis and HIV infection and ... Ravera and co-workers (1999) showed that 91% of the participants (42 females, 35 males) had both oral and oesophageal candidiasis and 47% (n=40) had oesophageal symptoms and all had oesophageal candidiasis ... and mortality and Sub-Saharan Africa (4 articles) • Antiretroviral adherence and East Africa (No articles) • Antiretroviral adherence and Tanzania (2 articles) • HIV infection and TB and Tanzania...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... to standard counselling only, and followed prospectively Methods Study design and subjects This was an unblinded randomized trial with use of medication diaries as the intervention, and standardized ... for randomization and initiation of antiretroviral therapy These tests were repeated at three to six monthly intervals during follow up Randomization and diary use Computer-generated block randomization ... equation) used b Data from 20 and 24 children in diary and control respectively c Numbers for all z-scores month 25 and 28 in diary and control respectively treatment programmes with conventional counselling...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... (95.1%) women, and stavudine (d4T)+3TC+NVP in seven (2.9%) women; five women started HAART with ZDV+3TC+EFV and one began with d4T+3TC +EFV The median time between exposure to sdNVP and initiation ... resistance mutations at Week 4, and 0.30 (95% CI: 0.11-0.68) in women with 3TC resistance mutation at Week In multivariate analysis (n = 247), the only factor associated with immunological failure ... routinely monitored and recorded in our study area Such data is important to fully understand the dynamics and rate of treatment failure in our population Switching treatments without using viral...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... men and women in sub-Saharan Africa Factors identified and ranked high as serious obstacles to accessing HAART were transportation costs in Uganda and Tanzania [4-6] In Benin, South Africa and ... knowledge for understanding barriers to HAART among pregnant and breastfeeding women, we conducted our study in Kabarole District, western Uganda, with a sample of pregnant and post-natal women ... care and received pre-test HIV counselling and were found to be HIV positive, and were 18 years and older Each registrant was assigned a number Study participants were chosen via simple random...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... early exposure to any regimen was associated with preterm birth compared with HAART-unexposed infants, with receipt of early efavirenz and nevirapine associated with the higher odds of preterm ... efavirenzcontaining regimen, lower CD4 cell count, and maternal hypertension were associated with LBW Although rates were low, neither smoking nor alcohol use was associated with LBW In multivariate analysis, ... remained, with each 50 cells/ mm3 increase in CD4 cell count associated with a 57% reduction in the odds of LBW (95% CI 0.45-0.71, p < 0.001) There was a trend towards hypertension being associated with...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Interagency HIV study (WIHS) [20] and the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) [21] We compared and contrasted the frequency of HAART modification among those with and without a history of IDU across ... abacavir- or tenofovir-containing regimen with at least NRTIs, 4) a regimen containing ritonavir and saquinavir and one NRTI, and no NNRTIs Combinations of zidovudine and stavudine were not considered ... those with a history of injection drug use Patterns and trends of HAART use The longitudinal trends in the use of HAART by class of drug are depicted in Figure Both individuals with and without...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... analysis and drafted the manuscript for publication FB, AM and AG assisted in data collection and reviewed the initial and final drafts of the manuscript FE and US interpreted the results, and reviewed ... enhance patient understanding of medication regimen, to identify potential obstacles to taking medication and trusting relationship between patients and health care providers, and ultimately to prevent ... level and determinants of nonadherence and nonreadiness to HAART among PLWHA at Gondar University Teaching Hospital and Felege Hiwot Hospital in Northwest Ethiopia Methods Study design, area, and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... higher (64% and 84%, respectively) The percentage of patients with VS at years was 59% and 85%, and at years was 65% and 82% for the EHE and LHE, respectively Analyses restricted to active duty patients ... access to care and IDU Previously, we and others have shown associations between both age at HAART initiation [41] and ethnicity [17,42,43] with treatment response Concordant with other studies, ... demographic (e.g race/ethnicity) and clinical factors (hepatitis B, prior STI, etc.) with outcomes after HAART in a U.S population with fewer confounders related to access to care and IDU Methods Study...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... months of treatment in patients with and without IRD is shown in Figure After commencement of HAART, laboratory values of patients with and without IRD were compared and there were significant increases ... lamivudine, stavudine and nevirapine), 1d (combination zidovudine, lamivudine and efavirenz) and 1c (combination of zidovudine, lamivudine and nevirapine) for 34%, 23.3%, 22% and 20.6% of the patients, ... baseline characteristics of patients with and without IRD The patients with IRD at HAART initiation were younger, had low CD4+ T-cell count, low WBC count and higher proportion of extra pulmonary...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... culture with T20 and with our without L-731,988 Resting CD4+ T cells preincubation with T20 Resting CD4+ T cells culture with T20 Anti-CD3/ anti-CD28 polyclonal activation * ** ELISpot assay and ... viral proteins in untreated (A) and HAART-treated patients (B) The CD4+ T lymphocytes were polyclonally activated and cultured with µg/ml of enfuvirtide and with or without 40 µM of the HIV-1 integrase ... activated and cultured with or without L-731,988 Cells were cultured with T20 The HIV-1 reservoir was detected in 11/12 untreated patients (91.6%) HIV-1-Ag-SCs were not detected for patient no 10 and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:22

... cell counts with CD9 expression and (B) CD8+ T cell counts with CD52 expression during Figure HAART5 Correlation of (A) CD4+ T cell counts with CD9 expression and (B) CD8+ T cell counts with CD52 ... with p values ranging from 0.001 to 0.048 (Table 3); results for CD11a and CD29 are shown in Figure 4A and 4B, respectively For reference, the average dot intensities of CD11a and CD29 (132 and ... for SR and TR patients, respectively, at time points (baseline), 2, and (Time points as described in Figure 3) Bars with diamond and star symbols represent the mean values for the SR and TR groups,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 06:20

... role of hepatitis C and B viruses and alcohol J Hepatol 2005, 42:799-805 Viale P, Baccarani U, Tavio M: Liver transplant in patients with HIV: infection risk associated with HIV and post-transplant ... decade (from 37.5 to 8.6%), with admission to the ICU in the most recent period being independently associated with increased survival • Delayed ICU admission was associated with increased ICU mortality ... JMM and BS contributed to study design and mentoring IC, PP and JP contributed to data collection, interpretation and manuscript preparation FB contributed to study design, data collection and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... known and often associated with abnormal body fat distribution and glucose metabolism disturbs (Carr et al., 1998) On persons treated with HAART, TG and TC elevations are associated with the use ... morbidity and mortality and improvements in the quality of life However, the requirement for a life-long therapy with antiretroviral drugs has been associated with long-term metabolic toxicities and ... it must be used with caution when co administered with a PI, with hepatitis and myositis being potential toxicities Rosuvastatin is the most potent statin to reduce LDL-c and TG, with serum levels...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 18:20

... receiving conventional antiMAC treatment, and were given IL-2 and GM-CSF in conjunction with ART as salvage therapy as detailed in materials and methods and as previously described [9,21] Increases ... CD4 and CD8 T lymphocytes, and associated with a lack of naïve CD4 T cells possibly due to absence of thymic function Discussion Immune reconstitution after initiation of ART may be concurrent with ... manifestation and hatched bars represent T cell responses after immunotherapy with IL-2 plus GM-CSF in conjunction with ART and resolution of IRIS Data are shown as median SI values with interquartile...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... baseline serum ferritin and hsCRP levels were associated with increased mortality; compared with a ferritin value of 25 μg/L, a baseline serum level of 250 μg/L was associated with an approximate ... related to infection with HIV-1 subtype C compared with other viral subtypes [26] Elevated CRP and other inflammation biomarkers are associated with endothelial dysfunction and an increased risk ... participants with low levels [13] Relative long-term (i.e., longer than six month) declines in serum albumin are associated with increased mortality among HIV-infected women (both with and without...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... (compared with stage 2) at enrolment was associated with lower CrCl, but not with lower eGFR Lower enrolment weight was associated with lower CrCl, but in contrast, lower weight was associated with ... cells/mm3, and lower haemoglobin at enrolment were all significantly associated with both a CrCl < 60 mL/min and eGFR < 60 mL/min/ 1.73 m2 Being female was associated with lower eGFR, but not with ... those with and without a CrCl < 60 mL/min in our study cohort were similar at 28 (23-56) and 28 (23-53), respectively The median (IQR) numbers of days between visits for those with and without...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... overall and cancer-specific survival was observed (Figure and 2) The 1-year OS in the matched HIV-seropositive and -seronegative cohort was 90 % and 100 %, and the 5year OS was 70 % and 69 %, ... disease-free and overall survival is similar in HIV-positive patients under HAART compared with HIV-negative patients (iv) Standard chemo-radiation with mitomycin-C is associated with a high rate ... HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative patients and whether the outcome in respect of treatment toxicity and survival after standard curative 3-D conformal RT with or without chemotherapy (CT) of invasive...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... Shabalina (Figs S1–S4) and Novartis (Figs S5–S8) datasets with calculations using one (Figs S1 and S5), two (Figs S2 and S6), three (Figs S3 and S7) and four (Figs S4 and S8) nearest neighbors ... guide strand and two segments of the passenger strand [61] and, when modified with selected locked nucleic acid nucleotides, were found to be more tolerant of chemical modifications than standard ... then selects one of the two strands to act as the guide strand [11–13], yielding the active RISC, which contains at a minimum the single-stranded guide strand RNA and Ago2 [14,15] (Recent work...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:23