Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are a key population affected by the global HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemics. HIV and HCV prevention interventions for PWID …
Background Considerable disease burden is attributed to injecting drug use (IDU). This regional systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the prevalence of IDU and …
High levels of drug dependence have been observed in the prison population globally, and the sharing of injecting drug equipment in prisons has contributed to higher prevalence of …
G Oberth, A Whiteside - African Journal of AIDS Research, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Immense progress has been made in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Achieving and exceeding the AIDS targets for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was …
JD Sachs, G Schmidt-Traub - Science, 2017 - science.org
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), and Malaria (GF) was launched in 2001 in the context of the AIDS pandemic and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) …
" Health service conditions in Venezuela are deplorable.... Hospitalization areas without running water, fully contaminated surgery rooms, not enough anesthesia to treat the …
FA Umunnakwe, ET Idowu, O Ajibaye, B Etoketim… - Malaria journal, 2019 - Springer
Background Asymptomatic malaria parasites are significant sources of infections for onward malaria transmission. Conventional tools for malaria diagnosis such as microscopy and …
TMT Vu, VL Boggiano, BX Tran, LH Nguyen… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) improves the health and well-being of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, PLWH), and reduces their risk of transmitting the virus …
Purpose There is an increasing effort in the global public health community to strengthen research capacity in low-and middle-income countries, but there is no consensus on how …