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Closing in on Immune Protection in the Women of Pumwani
(1995)
This review provides the reader with pertinent information on the epidemiology, prevention, and new technologies of the ongoing HIV pandemic. These aspects are key to international policy discussions surrounding the public ...
Antiretroviral therapy in a core transmission group of Kenyan female sex workers is not associated with increased sexual risk taking..
(African Wildlife Foundation, Nairobi, 2010)
Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) prolongs life and reduces infectiousness, in some contexts it has been associated with increased sexual risk taking. We compared self-reported condom use, client numbers, and STI ...
Does antiretroviral therapy initiation increase sexual risk taking in Kenyan female sex workers? A retrospective case–control study
(2012)
Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) prolongs life and reduces infectiousness, in some contexts, it has been associated with increased sexual risk taking.
Design
Retrospective case–control study.
Setting
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Lack of efficacy of isoniazid chemoprophylaxis in the preventions of tuberculosis in hiv - 1 infected adults
(2008)
Background: Six months of daily isoniazid has been shown to be effective in preventing tuberculosis in the pre-HIV era. Because of underlying immune dysfunction and increased susceptibility to new infection this efficacy ...
Efficacy of nonoxynol 9 contraceptive sponge use in preventing heterosexual acquisition of HIV in Nairobi prostitutes
(University of Nairobi, 1992)
OBJECTIVE–To determine the efficacy of the nonoxynol 9 contraceptive sponge in preventing sexual acquisition of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). DESIGN–Prospective, randomized placebo-controlled trial. SETTING–Research ...
Female sex workers in Africa: Epidemiology overview, data gaps, ways forward
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
The HAART cell phone adherence trial (WelTel Kenya1): a randomized controlled trial protocol.
(University of Nairobi,, 2009-09)
BACKGROUND:
The objectives are to compare the effectiveness of cell phone-supported SMS messaging to standard care on adherence, quality of life, retention, and mortality in a population receiving antiretroviral therapy ...
Is the promise of methadone Kenya’s solution to managing HIV and addiction? A mixed-method mathematical modelling and qualitative study
(BMJ, 2015)
Background and objectives: Promoted globally as an
evidence-based intervention in the prevention of HIV and
treatment of heroin addiction among people who inject
drugs (PWID), opioid substitution treatment (OST) can
help ...
The relationship between HIV/Sexuaily Transmitted Infection risk and alcohol use during commercial sex episodes: results from the study of female commercial sex workers in the Philippines.
(2006-11)
The results of this study will be particularly important in designing more responsive interventions for alcohol-related behaviour towards better control of HIV and sexually transmitted infections.
This interesting ...
Retrospective seroepidemiology of AIDS virus infection in Nairobi populations
(1987)
Among 446 sera from prostitutes in Nairobi, the prevalence of antibody to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) rose from 4% in 1981 to 61% in 1985. None of 118 men with chancroid seen in 1980 had antibody to HIV compared ...