Search Results - "TOBAIWA, Ocean"
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Performance of point-of-care birth HIV testing in primary health care clinics: An observational cohort study
Published in PloS one (18-06-2018)“…Failure to timely diagnose HIV in infants is a major barrier for scaling-up paediatric antiretroviral treatment (ART). WHO recommends birth testing for earlier…”
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Point-Of-Care p24 Infant Testing for HIV May Increase Patient Identification despite Low Sensitivity
Published in PloS one (06-01-2017)“…The long delay in returning test results during early infant diagnosis of HIV (EID) often causes loss-to-follow-up prior to antiretroviral treatment (ART)…”
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Acceptability and performance of dual HIV/syphilis testing in male circumcision clients, 2021
Published in Southern African journal of HIV medicine (2024)“…Dual HIV/syphilis testing may be an acceptable intervention to identify men with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and at risk of HIV acquisition. We…”
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Performance Evaluation of the MyT4 Technology for Determining ART Eligibility
Published in PloS one (25-10-2016)“…In resource-limited countries, CD4 T-cell (CD4) testing continues to be used for determining antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation eligibility and…”
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Implementation of Point-of-Care Diagnostics Leads to Variable Uptake of Syphilis, Anemia and CD4+ T-Cell Count Testing in Rural Maternal and Child Health Clinics
Published in PloS one (26-08-2015)“…Anemia, syphilis and HIV are high burden diseases among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. A quasi-experimental study was conducted in four health…”
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Evaluating operational specifications of point-of-care diagnostic tests: a standardized scorecard
Published in PloS one (31-10-2012)“…The expansion of HIV antiretroviral therapy into decentralized rural settings will increasingly require simple point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests that can be…”
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The Association Between Alcohol Use, Sexual Risk Behavior, and HIV Infection Among Men Attending Beerhalls in Harare, Zimbabwe
Published in AIDS and behavior (01-09-2002)“…HIV testing and a behavioral survey were conducted with a cross-sectional sample of 324 men recruited at beerhalls in Harare, Zimbabwe, to examine the…”
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Affordable flow cytometry for enumeration of absolute CD4+ T-lymphocytes to identify subtype C HIV-1 infected adults requiring antiretroviral therapy (ART) and monitoring response to ART in a resource-limited setting
Published in Journal of translational medicine (14-08-2006)“…The World Health Organization (WHO)'s "3 x 5 program" has spurred efforts to place 3 million people on combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) for treatment…”
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Signal-boosted qualitative ultrasensitive p24 antigen assay for diagnosis of subtype C HIV-1 infection in infants under the age of 2 years
Published in Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) (01-08-2005)“…The gold standard for diagnosis of HIV-1 infection in infants under the age of 2 years is DNA or reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. However,…”
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T lymphocytes among HIV-infected and -uninfected infants: CD4/CD8 ratio as a potential tool in diagnosis of infection in infants under the age of 2 years
Published in Journal of translational medicine (01-02-2005)“…BACKGROUND: Serologic tests for HIV infection in infants less than 18 months do not differentiate exposure and infection since maternally acquired IgG…”
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Effect of point-of-care early infant diagnosis on antiretroviral therapy initiation and retention of patients
Published in AIDS (London) (17-07-2018)“…OBJECTIVE:We measured the effect of point-of-care (POC) early infant HIV testing on antiretroviral therapy initiation rates and retention in care among infants…”
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Accurate Early Infant HIV Diagnosis in Primary Health Clinics Using a Point-of-Care Nucleic Acid Test
Published in Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) (01-09-2014)“…OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the accuracy of a point-of-care (POC) nucleic acid–based test (NAT) for early infant HIV diagnosis (EID) in primary health clinics in…”
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Evaluation of the Whole-Blood Alere Q NAT Point-of-Care RNA Assay for HIV-1 Viral Load Monitoring in a Primary Health Care Setting in Mozambique
Published in Journal of clinical microbiology (01-08-2016)“…Viral load testing is the WHO-recommended monitoring assay for patients on HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART). Point-of-care (POC) assays may help improve access…”
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Prenatal Transmission of Subtype C HIV-1 in Zimbabwe: HIV-1 RNA and DNA in Maternal and Cord Blood
Published in Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) (15-12-2000)“…Maternal and cord samples from HIV-seropositive women and their infants in Zimbabwe, where subtype C is the predominant strain of HIV, were analyzed to…”
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Accurate CD4 T-cell enumeration and antiretroviral drug toxicity monitoring in primary healthcare clinics using point-of-care testing
Published in AIDS (London) (27-03-2011)“…To evaluate the accuracy of point-of-care tests (POCTs) for CD4 cell, clinical chemistry and hemoglobin in primary healthcare clinics in Mozambique. POCT and…”
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Use of mobile phone technology to improve the quality of point-of-care testing in a low-resource setting
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Implementation of Point-of-Care Diagnostics Leads to Variable Uptake of Syphilis, Anemia and CD4+ T-Cell Count Testing in Rural Maternal and Child Health Clinics: e0135744
Published in PloS one (01-08-2015)“…Introduction Anemia, syphilis and HIV are high burden diseases among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. A quasi-experimental study was conducted in four…”
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Novel and Promiscuous CTL Epitopes in Conserved Regions of Gag Targeted by Individuals with Early Subtype C HIV Type 1 Infection from Southern Africa
Published in The Journal of immunology (1950) (01-10-2004)“…Characterization of optimal CTL epitopes in Gag can provide crucial information for evaluation of candidate vaccines in populations at the epicenter of the…”
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Prenatal Transmission of Subtype C HIV-1 in Zimbabwe: HIV-1 RNA and DNA in Maternal and Cord Blood
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Association of high HIV-1 RNA levels and homozygosity at HLA class II DRB1 in adults coinfected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Harare, Zimbabwe
Published in Human immunology (01-11-2002)“…HIV-1 mRNA levels (virus load) were quantified for 191 pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients and 132 HIV-1 seropositive controls. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)…”
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