Background: Consistent with the global trend, youth with HIV (YWH) in Nigeria have high
rates of viral nonsuppression. Hence, novel interventions are needed. Setting: Infectious …

Objective: Efavirenz (EFV) use is associated with neuropsychiatric side effects, which may
include poor neurocognitive performance. We evaluated single nucleotide polymorphisms in …

Most measures of adherence to antiretroviral therapy require a blood sample, and none
capture longitudinal daily adherence. A new noninvasive method for measuring daily …

Studies have shown the possibility of using the part of the foreskin removed after
circumcision in the field of scientific and therapeutic research. Donations of tissues and …

Background Strategies to support adherence are constrained by the lack of tools to
objectively monitor medication intake in low-resource settings. Pharmacologic measures are …

Background: Few data on maternal-infant hair cortisol are available from HIV high-burden
settings. We evaluated maternal hair cortisol and its relationship with infant hair cortisol …

Aim: Limited research has explored factors influencing participants' decisions to consent to
and complete hair sample collection. This study examined the relationships of …

Willingness to donate hair samples is a rate-limiting step for assaying antiretroviral (ARV)
concentrations in hair, an emerging technique for HIV prevention and treatment monitoring …

Glucocorticoids are understood to represent useful biomarkers of stress and can be
measured in saliva, hair, and breastmilk. The collection of such biosamples is increasingly …