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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"ARV"”.
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The ARV Treatment Adherence Model: A Qualitative Study on Antiretroviral (ARV) Treatment Adherence for People Living with HIV
<p>Adherence to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment improves life expectancy and other health outcomes for people living with HIV (PLWH). It also minimizes their risk of transmitting HIV through sexual contact and is therefore a form of HIV prevention. However, many PLWH, specifically low-income PLWH of …
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The impact of African traditional healers on Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in South Africa
… African traditional healers on Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in South Africa. Each of the sub studies focused on the insights and opinions of three different populations, i.e. health care workers, traditional healers (who were affiliated with HIV/AIDS care services) and HIV positive patients. …
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Provision of free ARV in public facilities in Tanzania : do the poor benefit?
… who benefit most from the provision of free ARV in terms of utilisation in urban and rural settings. It also aimed to identify the criteria used in enrolment of patients for free ARV provision, the barriers for ARV provision and patient's perception on ARV.
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Influence of maternal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and antiretroviral (ARV) drugs on neonate neurometabolism.
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can be vertically transmitted from a woman living with HIV to her child during pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) prevents vertical transmission of HIV by providing prophylaxis to the fetus or infant and lowering the …
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Assessing access barriers to Tuberculosis (TB) and Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town South Africa
Access to health care is a very important concept which has equally important implications to the health status of individuals. However, there have been a lot of debates among researchers and policy makers on what constitutes access, and how it can be made less conceptual and more operational. The …
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Financing ARV Drug Manufacture in Zimbabwe: Implications for technological capability upgrading and innovation for African local pharmaceutical production
Contemporary academic and professional discourses on local African pharmaceutical manufacture have concentrated on technology, technology transfer, economies of scale, human capital, and markets for drugs; neglecting the financing of working capital and capital investment and the role played by …
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The significance of Continuity of Care in the context of chronic ARV care in the Public Health Care system
… oldest clinics with a total of 6000 patients on ARVs since May 2001. An observational period of the last five visits of patients to the clinic was used to measure the COC as a simple Continuity Fraction (CF)(alternatively called the Usual Provider Continuity/UPC), which was compared with more …
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'You must tune your TB programme well...' : integrating TB, HIV and ARV care in Cape Town primary care setting
… co-epidemic, the concern that antiretroviral (ARV) provision might compromise the existing TB control programme, and that the Western Cape's current limited vertical model of ARV roll-out will soon reach capacity. This study evaluated whether and how TB control changed following ARV …
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Outcomes of Human Immunodeficiency Virus infected children admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit in Cape Town, South Africa
… patients. HIV infected children all die without ARV medication, and it resulted in an increase in the South African under-5 mortality rate. In this context critically ill HIV infected children were often denied PICU admission. Developed countries introduced ARV medication in the early 1990's and …
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Prescribing patterns of antiretroviral drugs in the private health care sector in South Africa : a drug utilisation review
… high price of many of the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and diagnostics on the other hand are one of the main barriers to their availability in developing countries (Unicef et al., 2004:77). ARV drugs registered in South Africa include the Nucleoside/Nucleotide Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors …
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An in-depth analysis of the psychological challenges associated with disclosing an HIV
The availability and free-access of ARV-treatment in South Africa has been a signifier of hope amongst fellow South Africans. This in effect has led to the government's assumption that the disclosure of an HIV/AIDS-infected status would be easier due to the treatment's effectiveness. Disclosing an …
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Estudo dos efeitos adversos decorrentes do uso de antirretrovirais em pacientes com HIV/AIDS, em Salvador (Brasil).
… e evolução de terapias antirretrovirais (ARV) para o seu tratamento, a morbi-mortalidade da infecção pelo HIV sofreu importante redução. Em contrapartida aos benefícios, a emergência de eventos adversos decorrentes do uso dos ARV influiu negativamente na qualidade de vida, fazendo com que …
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Incidence and Prevalence Of Renal Dysfunction In Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Naïve Patients Starting A Tenofovir (TDF) Based ART Regimen In Mitchell's Plain Community Health Centre (CHC) ARV Clinic
… fumarate (TDF) has high antiretrovirus (ARV) activity and available in fixed dose combination (FDC). However, it has been found to cause renal dysfunction. Objectives: To document the prevalence, incidence, pattern of occurence and associated factors of nephrotoxicity in patients …
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Molecular characterization of economically important poultry viruses in western Canada
Avian Reovirus (ARV), Chicken Astrovirus (CAstV), and Hemorrhagic Enteritis Virus (HEV) are important enteric pathogens affecting poultry production around the world. These agents are the causative agents of Viral Arthritis (VA), White Chick Syndrome (WCS), and Hemorrhagic Enteritis (HE), …
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Effects of preterm birth on HIV acquisition risk and antiretroviral prophylaxis safety in HIV-exposed Infants in Botswana
… infants with in-utero HIV and antiretroviral (ARV) drug exposure, it is pertinent to understand the risks associated with mother-to-child-transmission (MTCT) of HIV in infants born preterm versus those born on or after 37 weeks gestational age, as a means of identifying opportunities to …
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Drug related problems associated with anti-retroviral therapy of HIV/AIDS patients at Ndola Central Hospital
… in access to new essential medicines such as ARVs and the ARV regimen complexity and challenges increase the potential for drug related problems. Objective: To determine the prevalence and patterns of drug related problems associated with anti-retroviral drugs in the management of HIV/AIDS …
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Drug related problems associated with anti-retroviral therapy of HIV/AIDS patients at Ndola Central Hospital
… in access to new essential medicines such as ARVs and the ARV regimen complexity and challenges increase the potential for drug related problems. Objective: To determine the prevalence and patterns of drug related problems associated with anti-retroviral drugs in the management of HIV/AIDS …
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Investigate the effect of Bacterial Vaginosis-associated bacteria on the efficacy of Anti-HIV therapy
… prophylaxis (PrEP) with antiretroviral (ARV) drugs such as tenofovir (TFV) and emtricitabine have been shown to protect men who have sex with men (MSM) from HIV infection, PrEP trials have not been as successful for women. Although this disparity is most likely multifactorial, studies …
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Investigate the effect of Bacterial Vaginosis-associated bacteria on the efficacy of Anti-HIV therapy
… prophylaxis (PrEP) with antiretroviral (ARV) drugs such as tenofovir (TFV) and emtricitabine have been shown to protect men who have sex with men (MSM) from HIV infection, PrEP trials have not been as successful for women. Although this disparity is most likely multifactorial, studies …
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The clinical role of therapeutic drug monitoring of antiretrovirals : a Cochrane systematic review
… objective of this study is to evaluate whether ARV TDM reduces mortality and morbidity of adult patients on cART.
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