Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Robert Luo, Youyi Fong, Debi Boeras, Ilesh Jani, Lara Vojnov
Summary: This study aimed to compare the clinical effect of point-of-care HIV testing versus laboratory-based testing in HIV-exposed infants. The results showed that point-of-care testing significantly shortened the time to result delivery, time to antiretroviral therapy initiation, and increased the proportion of HIV-positive infants starting antiretroviral therapy within 60 days compared with standard of care.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Luchuo Engelbert Bain, Hubert Amu, Robert Kokou Dowou, Peter Memiah, Valirie Ndip Agbor
Summary: Early identification of persons living with HIV is crucial, and HIV self-testing can enhance the acceptability of HIV testing. However, individuals who test positive after self-testing are more likely to delay treatment. This review aims to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to improve linkage to care and prevention after self-testing.
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Rigmor C. Berg, Samantha Page, Anita Ogard-Repal
Summary: A systematic review found that peer-support for people living with HIV is superior to routine medical care in improving outcomes such as retention in care, ART adherence, and viral suppression. However, the evidence for most other main outcomes is currently too uncertain for firm conclusions.
Review
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Ruojing Bai, Juan Du, Shiyun Lv, Wei Hua, Lili Dai, Hao Wu
Summary: Rapid antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been compared with standard/delayed treatment for HIV patients in terms of benefits and risks. The results show that Rapid ART is superior to standard/delayed treatment in providing continuous care for at least 8 months and reducing the risk of severe bacterial infection. However, at 12 months following treatment, there is no significant difference in viral load, mortality, or the incidence of adverse events compared with standard/delayed treatment.
FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
(2022)
Letter
Immunology
Bin Zhao, Haibo Ding, Wei Song, Mingming Kang, Xue Dong, Xin Li, Lu Wang, Jianmin Liu, Zhenxing Chu, Lin Wang, Wen Tian, Yu Qiu, Hong Shang, Xiaoxu Han
Summary: This retrospective observational cohort study estimated the best time to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) and found that initiating ART within 7 days or less and 8-30 days were the most important factors for viral suppression. These two groups had similar viral suppression rates, increases in CD4(+) T-cell count, and proportions of individuals with at least 4 links and individuals linked to recent HIV infection in HIV molecular networks.
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alex Durand Nka, Georges Teto, Maria Mercedes Santoro, Valantine Ngum Ndze, Desire Takou, Beatrice Dambaya, Ezechiel Ngoufack Jagni Semengue, Lavinia Fabeni, Carlo-Federico Perno, Vittorio Colizzi, Francesca Ceccherini-Silberstein, Joseph Fokam
Summary: This review focuses on summarizing the clinical implications of HIV-1 Gag gene mutations under PI/r therapy, with particular attention to the distribution and resistance associated with different viral subtypes. Through systematic searches and analysis, it aims to better understand the significance of Gag gene mutations in treatment failure and how they may impact clinical management strategies for patients receiving PI/r regimens.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Guiying Cao, Yaping Wang, Yu Wu, Wenzhan Jing, Jue Liu, Min Liu
Summary: Anemia is prevalent among people living with HIV. Policies, strategies, and programs should be considered to identify the predictors of anemia among PLWHIV to reduce the burden of anemia among patients in the antiretroviral therapy era.
Article
Health Policy & Services
Malatsi Galani, David M. Hailey, William Tibben, Keletso J. Letsholo
Summary: Despite staff confidence in using the EHR system, there are challenges such as lack of appropriate support, risks of data corruption, and communication issues with outside healthcare providers. Further development is needed to address limitations in staff training, support for health centers, and communication between facilities to prevent delays in treatment and fragmentation of health records.
HEALTH POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jie Zhou, Jingyi Yun, Xinxin Ye, Wen Liu, Wenhan Xiao, Peige Song, Hongmei Wang
Summary: This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effectiveness of interventions targeting antiretroviral adherence in HIV-infected pregnant women. The study found that enhanced standard of care, enhanced standard of care with a supporter, and device reminder were significant interventions for improving medication adherence.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Belete Gelaw, Lemma Dessalegn, Eyasu Alem, Tiwabwork Tekalign, Tadele Lankirew, Kirubel Eshetu, Chalie Marew, Bogale Chekole, Amare Kassaw
Summary: This study conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the pooled prevalence of treatment failure and associated factors among children on antiretroviral therapy in Ethiopia. The results showed that treatment failure among children in Ethiopia was significantly associated with poor ART adherence, advanced WHO clinical staging, and opportunistic infections.
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nande Putta, Caitlin E. Hansen, Melissa C. Funaro, Melissa Campbell, Shaffiq Essajee, Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, Shadrack Frimpong, Shi-Yi Wang, Elijah Paintsil
Summary: This systematic review aims to evaluate the most effective interventions, models, programs, and strategies to optimize the delivery of services for testing, linkage, treatment, and retention of children and adolescents living with HIV globally. The review will provide synthesized evidence to guide national governments and healthcare providers in prioritizing and adopting evidence-based service delivery approaches for this population.
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yan Shen, Fei Sun, Anao Zhang, Kaipeng Wang
Summary: Elder abuse is a global public health concern, negatively impacting the health, psychosocial wellbeing, and mortality of the elderly. Research has found a significant positive effect of psychosocial interventions on elder abuse, with family-based interventions and interventions targeting caregivers and older adults also showing significant effects.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Criminology & Penology
Nabeela Malik, Emma Facer-Irwin, Hannah Dickson, Annie Bird, Deirdre MacManus
Summary: This study examined the effectiveness of trauma-focused interventions in prison and found that phase 2 trauma processing interventions and individually delivered interventions can effectively reduce symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the limited comparison groups call for high-quality research to be conducted.
TRAUMA VIOLENCE & ABUSE
(2023)
Review
Infectious Diseases
Mariantonietta Pisaturo, Lorenzo Onorato, Antonio Russo, Salvatore Martini, Paolo Chiodini, Simona Signoriello, Paolo Maggi, Nicola Coppola
Summary: This meta-analysis evaluated the efficacy of dual therapies compared to triple therapies in HIV-naive patients. The study found that there was no significant difference in treatment failure, virological failure, and adverse drug reactions between dual therapies and triple therapies at 48 weeks, except for a higher risk of treatment failure in patients with CD4+ count less than 200.
CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION
(2021)
Review
Oncology
Beatriz Regina Lima de Aguiar, Eliete Neves Silva Guerra, Ana Gabriela Costa Normando, Carolina Castro Martins, Paula Elaine Diniz dos Reis, Elaine Barros Ferreira
Summary: PBMT shows some effectiveness in preventing and treating radiation dermatitis (RD) in breast cancer patients, especially in preventing grade 3 RD. Further randomized clinical trials are needed to confirm the promising effect of PBMT in RD.
CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ONCOLOGY HEMATOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Andrea Margulis, Alison T. Kawai, Mary S. Anthony, Elena Rivero-Ferrer
Summary: This study identified key methodological elements necessary for understanding perinatal pharmacoepidemiology research and quantified the proportion of studies reporting these elements in a sample of publications. Results showed that reporting completeness could have been improved in this sample of pregnancy-related pharmacoepidemiology publications.
PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Andrea Ciaranello, Angela Mushavi, Shahin Lockman
ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Anne M. Neilan, Raphael J. Landovitz, Mylinh H. Le, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Marybeth McCauley, Nattanicha Wattananimitgul, Myron S. Cohen, Andrea L. Ciaranello, Meredith E. Clement, Krishna P. Reddy, Emily P. Hyle, A. David Paltiel, Rochelle P. Walensky
Summary: The study found that although CAB-LA offers more benefits over F/TDF, effective oral PrEP limits the additional price society should be willing to pay for CAB-LA.
ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Jeffrey P. Harris, Andrea L. Ciaranello, Elisabeth S. Tabb
Summary: A 55-year-old man presented with bilateral hearing loss and eye redness, accompanied by fatigue, intermittent body aches, and weight loss. A diagnostic test was performed in the presence of redness in both eyes and grossly reduced hearing in both ears.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Pediatrics
Elissa M. Schechter-Perkins, Shira Doron, Russell Johnston, Jeremiah Hay, David Berlin, Andrea Ciaranello, Sandra B. Nelson, Jenny M. Gormley, Sandra C. Smole, Catherine M. Brown, Lawrence C. Madoff, Westyn Branch-Elliman
Summary: The test-to-stay program implemented in Massachusetts allows more students to participate in in-person learning by conducting daily rapid antigen testing for students exposed to COVID-19, without causing additional clusters of cases due to in-school transmission.
Article
Infectious Diseases
Anne M. Neilan, Justin B. DeMonte, Julia H. A. Foote, Brad Karalius, Kunjal Patel, Bill G. Kapogiannis, Bret J. Rudy, Heather Huszti, M. Isabel Fernandez, Michael G. Hudgens, Andrea L. Ciaranello
Summary: Among youth aged 15 to 24 years in the United States, 50% of new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) occur. Previous studies on youth with HIV (YHIV) did not distinguish the STI trends between individuals with perinatally acquired HIV (YPHIV) and nonperinatally acquired HIV (YNPHIV). The results from multiple studies showed that compared to YPHIV, YNPHIV had higher STI diagnosis rates, spent less time on antiretroviral therapy, and had lower levels of virologic suppression.
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
(2022)
Article
Immunology
Clare F. Flanagan, Nicole McCann, John Stover, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Andrea L. Ciaranello
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the care for women and children affected by HIV, leading to a decrease in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) care, an increase in pediatric HIV infections, and a decrease in access to antiretroviral therapy (ART). It is crucial to address the immediate and indirect harms of the pandemic to vulnerable populations in order to maintain progress towards an AIDS-free generation.
JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AIDS SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Immunology
Tijana Stanic, Nicole McCann, Martina Penazzato, Clare Flanagan, Shaffiq Essajee, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Meg Doherty, Nande Putta, Landon Myer, George K. Siberry, Intira Jeannie Collins, Lara Vojnov, Elaine Abrams, Djora Soeteman, Andrea L. Ciaranello
Summary: This study compared the cost-effectiveness of pediatric provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling (PITC) versus no PITC in different clinical care settings in South Africa. The results showed that routine testing improves HIV clinical outcomes and is cost-effective, as long as the prevalence of undiagnosed HIV among children exceeds 0.2%.
OPEN FORUM INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
John Giardina, Alyssa Bilinski, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, Emily A. Kendall, Benjamin P. Linas, Joshua Salomon, Andrea L. Ciaranello
Summary: This study aims to estimate the association between adding or removing in-school mitigation measures (e.g., masks) and COVID-19 outcomes within an elementary school community at varying student vaccination and local incidence rates.
Editorial Material
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Andrea Margulis, Krista Huybrechts
PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY
(2023)
Article
Immunology
Caitlin M. Dugdale, Ogochukwu Ufio, Christopher Alba, Sallie R. Permar, Lynda Stranix-Chibanda, Coleen K. Cunningham, Genevieve G. Fouda, Landon Myer, Milton C. Weinstein, Valeriane Leroy, Elizabeth J. McFarland, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Andrea L. Ciaranello
Summary: Infant HIV prophylaxis with broadly neutralizing anti-HIV antibodies (bNAbs) could be a cost-effective intervention to reduce vertical HIV transmission in sub-Saharan African settings, according to a cost-effectiveness analysis. The study estimated the potential clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of hypothetical bNAb prophylaxis programs for HIV-exposed children in Cote d'Ivoire, South Africa, and Zimbabwe and found that bNAb prophylaxis would significantly reduce infant HIV incidence.
JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AIDS SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Andrea V. V. Margulis, Brian Calingaert, Alison T. T. Kawai, Elena Rivero-Ferrer, Mary S. S. Anthony
Summary: The purpose of this study was to describe the distribution of gestational age at birth (GAB) and provide estimation of GAB for perinatal pharmacoepidemiology studies when clinical or obstetric estimates are not available. The researchers estimated and analyzed GAB, including median, mode, mean, and standard deviation, as well as the percentage of births at each gestational week based on the U.S. birth data from CDC in 2020. The study found distinct GAB distributions in different maternal and infant groups, which can be useful for estimating GAB in database studies of medication use during pregnancy when individual-level clinical estimates are not available.
PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Djeneba Audrey Djibo, Andrea V. Margulis, Cheryl N. McMahill-Walraven, Catherine W. Saltus, Patricia Shuminski, James A. Kaye, Catherine B. Johannes, Mark Libertin, Shelli Graham
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the positive predictive value (PPV) of an endometrial cancer case finding algorithm using ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes from US insurance claims for implementation in a planned post-marketing safety study. Two algorithm variants were evaluated, and high PPV was achieved.
PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Andrea Margulis, Brian Calingaert, Alison Tse Kawai, Elena Rivero-Ferrer
PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY
(2022)
Meeting Abstract
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Djeneba Audrey Djibo, Andrea Margulis, Cheryl N. McMahill-Walraven, Catherine Saltus, Patricia Shuminski, James A. Kaye, Catherine B. Johannes, Brian Calingaert, Mark Libertin, Shelli Graham
PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY
(2022)