HPTN at IAS 2017 Recap

Understanding low sensitivity of community-based HIV rapid testing: experiences from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial in Zambia and South Africa

INTRODUCTION Population-wide HIV testing services (HTS) must be delivered in order to achieve universal antiretroviral treatment (ART) coverage. To accurately deliver HTS at such scale, non-facility-based HIV point-of-care testing (HIV-POCT) is necessary but requires rigorous quality assurance (QA). This study assessed the performance of community-wide HTS in Zambia and South Africa (SA) as par...

Explaining and Querying Knowledge Graphs by Relatedness

We demonstrate RECAP, a tool that explains relatedness between entities in Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and implements a query by relatedness paradigm that allows to retrieve entities related to those in input. One of the peculiarities of RECAP is that it does not require any data preprocessing and can combine knowledge from multiple KGs. The underlying algorithmic techniques are reduced to the execu...

Experience in international clinical research: the HIV Prevention Trials Network.

The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) is supported by the NIH to conduct randomized clinical trials to assess the efficacy of HIV prevention strategies and technologies to reduce HIV transmission between adults. A special focus of attention is on the use of antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV transmission, both by reducing infectiousness among HIV-infected persons taking combination antiretr...

Potential impact of the new WHO guidelines on the power in the HPTN071- PopART trial - Mathematical modelling as submitted to the HPTN 071 (PopART) DSMB not peer-reviewed by PLOS Medicine Executive summary

Breathe journal club: virtually meet the experts

A recap of the first Breathe online journal club by @fritsfranssen http://ow.ly/5uXX308xAG1.