Diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus infection

BS Parekh, CY Ou, PN Fonjungo… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY HIV diagnostics have played a central role in the remarkable progress in
identifying, staging, initiating, and monitoring infected individuals on life-saving antiretroviral …

The global epidemiology of adolescents living with HIV: time for more granular data to improve adolescent health outcomes

AL Slogrove, AH Sohn - Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Needed investments into characterizing and improving adolescent HIV-related health
outcomes include strengthening systems for nationally and globally disaggregated data by …

Spin-enhanced nanodiamond biosensing for ultrasensitive diagnostics

BS Miller, L Bezinge, HD Gliddon, D Huang, G Dold… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The quantum spin properties of nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond enable diverse
applications in quantum computing and communications. However, fluorescent …

Latent HIV reservoirs exhibit inherent resistance to elimination by CD8+ T cells

SH Huang, Y Ren, AS Thomas, D Chan… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The presence of persistent, latent HIV reservoirs in CD4+ T cells obstructs current efforts to
cure infection. The so-called kick-and-kill paradigm proposes to purge these reservoirs by …

South African National HIV prevalence, incidence, behaviour and communication survey, 2017: Towards achieving the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets

L Simbayi, K Zuma, N Zungu, S Moyo, E Marinda… - 2019 - repository.hsrc.ac.za
The 2017 National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communication Survey is the
fifth wave in a series of national cross-sectional surveys that have been undertaken every …

Scale-up of routine viral load testing in resource-poor settings: current and future implementation challenges

T Roberts, J Cohn, K Bonner… - Clinical Infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Despite immense progress in antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale-up, many people still lack
access to basic standards of care, with our ability to meet the Joint United Nations …

UNAIDS 90–90–90 targets to end the AIDS epidemic by 2020 are not realistic: comment on “Can the UNAIDS 90–90–90 target be achieved? A systematic analysis of …

LE Bain, C Nkoke, JJN Noubiap - BMJ global health, 2017 - gh.bmj.com
There is indisputable evidence regarding the remarkable success over the past two decades
in reducing HIV associated morbidity, mortality, transmission, stigma and improving the …

Multi‐month prescriptions, fast‐track refills, and community ART groups: results from a process evaluation in Malawi on using differentiated models of care to achieve …

ML Prust, CK Banda, R Nyirenda… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction: In order to facilitate scale‐up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Malawi,
innovative and pragmatic models have been developed to optimize the efficiency of HIV …

Adherence clubs and decentralized medication delivery to support patient retention and sustained viral suppression in care: Results from a cluster-randomized …

MP Fox, S Pascoe, AN Huber, J Murphy… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Differentiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) delivery models, in which patients are
provided with care relevant to their current status (eg, newly initiating, stable on treatment, or …

Evidence for scale up: the differentiated care research agenda

A Grimsrud, RV Barnabas, P Ehrenkranz… - African Journal of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
“It's not about everybody getting the same thing. It's about everybody getting what they need
in order to improve the quality of their situation.” Cynthia Silvia Parker, Interaction Institute for …