Background HIV testing and retention in care treatment are key strategies towards an AIDS free generation. Immediate treament of HIV patients with the lowest CD4 T cell counts is critical given their high rates of pre-antiretroviral therapy mortality. We evaluated the impact of adding an additional nurse-counsellor on HIV outcomes among patients enrolled in care in 7 urban public clinics in Kam...

Affiliations: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Public Health, Antwerp, Belgium (W Van Damme, MD, MPH, K Hermann, MA, MPH); School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (GW Pariyo, MBChB, PhD); Department of HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi; Management Sciences for Health, Lilongwe, Malawi (EJ Schouten, MD, MPH); Federal HIV/AIDS Prevention and Con...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: HPV: Human Papillomavirus; HBV: Hepatitis B Viruses; HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus; HHV8: Human Herpesvirus-8; IARC: International Agency for Research on Cancer; KCR: Kampala Cancer Registry; EARN: East African Registry; INCTR: International Network For Cancer Treatment And Research; UICC: International Union Against Cancer; NIH: ...

1 Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 2 School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 3Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4Ghana Health Service/University of Ghana School of Public Health, Accra, Ghana, 5 School of Public Health, Makerere University...

David R. Marsh,* Davidson H. Hamer, Franco Pagnoni, and Stefan Peterson Save the Children, Westport, Connecticut; Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of International Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Bos...

1791. Evaluating Cryptococcal Antigen Lateral Flow Assay by Fingerstick Whole Blood in HIV-Infected Persons with Meningitis Darlisha Williams, MPH; Kiiza Tadeo,; Sruti Velamakkani,; Reuben Kiggundu,; David Meya, MMed; Joshua Rhein, MD; David Boulware, MD, MPH; Center for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology Translational Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Infectious Disease Insti...

From the George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (R.N.); the University of Sydney, Sydney (R.N.); Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda (O.K.); and the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa, Johannesburg (O.K.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Norton at the George Institute for Global Health, New R...