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High Mobility Group Box 1 (HMGB1) and HIV-Associated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Africa
(Academia.edu, 2015)
Other than Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and CD4+ T cell lymphopenia, the mechanisms responsible for KS are poorly understood. Additional mechanisms must exist in sub-Saharan Africa given that only a ...
Food insecurity, depression and the modifying role of social support among people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda
(Social science & medicine, 2012)
Depression is common among people living with HIV/AIDS and contributes to a wide range of worsened HIV-related outcomes, including AIDS-related mortality. Targeting modifiable causes of depression, either through primary ...
How Does Antiretroviral Treatment Attenuate the Stigma of HIV? Evidence from a Cohort Study in Rural Uganda
(AIDS and Behavior, 2013)
Program implementers and qualitative researchers have described how increasing availability of
HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with improvements in psychosocial health and internalized stigma. To determine ...
A Causal Framework for Understanding the Effect of Losses to Follow-up on Epidemiologic Analyses in Clinic-based Cohorts: The Case of HIV-infected Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in Africa
(American journal of epidemiology, 2012)
Although clinic-based cohorts are most representative of the ‘‘real world,’’ they are susceptible to loss to follow-up. Strategies for managing the impact of loss to follow-up are therefore needed to maximize the value of ...
How Does Antiretroviral Treatment Attenuate the Stigma of HIV? Evidence from a Cohort Study in Rural Uganda
(AIDS and Behavior, 2013)
Program implementers and qualitative researchers have described how increasing availability of HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with improvements in psychosocial health and internalized
stigma. To determine ...
GPS-measured distance to clinic, but not self-reported transportation factors, are associated with missed HIV clinic visits in rural Uganda
(AIDS, 2013)
Objective—Studies of the association between transportation barriers and HIV-related health
outcomes have shown both positive and negative effects, possibly because a reliable, validated
measure of transportation barriers ...
Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Carotid Atherosclerosis in a Mixed Cohort of HIV-Infected and Uninfected Ugandans
(2017)
Preventable cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors are responsible for the majority of CVD-related deaths, and are increasingly recognized as a cause of morbidity and mortality for HIV-infected persons taking antiretroviral ...
Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Interruptions are Associated with Systemic Inflammation among Ugandans who Achieved Viral Suppression
(Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes, 2019)
Background: Residual systemic inflammation, which is associated with non-AIDS clinical outcomes, may persist despite viral suppression. We assessed the effect of antiretroviral (ART) adherence interruptions on systemic ...
Point-of-Care C-Reactive Protein Testing to Facilitate Implementation of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy for People Living with HIV
(Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes, 2014)
Background—Symptom-based tuberculosis screening identifies less than one-third of eligible HIV-infected patients as candidates for isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT). We evaluated whether
testing for C-reactive protein ...
Internalized stigma, depressive symptoms, and the modifying role of antiretroviral therapy: A cohort study in rural Uganda
(SSM-Mental Health, 2021)
Depression affects over 40% of people with HIV (PHIV) in low- and middle-income countries, and over half of PHIV report HIV-related internalized stigma. However, few longitudinal studies of PHIV have examined the relationship ...