HIV antibody screening. An ethical framework for evaluating proposed programs.

The ethical implications of screening for HIV: whose choice reigns?

Rapid HIV testing program implementation: lessons from the emergency department

BACKGROUND The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and the World Health Organization (WHO) both recommend HIV testing in health-care settings. However, neither organization provides prescriptive details regarding how these recommendations should be adapted into clinical practice in an emergency department. METHODS We have implemented an HIV-testing program in the ED...

Performance of Rapid Point-of-Care and Laboratory Tests for Acute and Established HIV Infection in San Francisco

BACKGROUND Current laboratory and point-of-care tests for HIV detect different analytes and use different sample types. Some have fast turnaround times (<1 hour). We investigated how HIV test choice could impact case finding by testing programs. METHODS We analyzed 21,234 consecutive HIV tests with venous blood obtained by San Francisco HIV testing programs from 2003 to 2008. For a subset, or...

Kirkpatrick’s Model: a Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Short-term and In-service Training Programs

Introduction: One of the common models for evaluation in the organization and in-service training model is four-level Kirkpatrick’s model. Users must be aware of strengths and areas of application of this model. The aim of this paper is to clarify the characteristics of this model according to Kirkpatrick and to summarize the critics of scholars to this model. At the end, the reforms that have ...

Screening Efficacy of Available HIV Protease Inhibitors on COVID-19 Protease

Background and Aim: Advent of COVID-19 attracted the attentions of researchers to develop drugs for its treatment. Besides efforts on developing new drugs, screening available drugs for efficacy on COVID-19 could be an urgent action of initiating its pharmacotherapy. In this study, efficacy of HIV protease inhibitors on COVID-19 protease has been examined. Methods: Molecular docking based scree...