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Filter by:Youth Living with HIV (YLWH) often face unique challenges achieving high and sustained rates of adherence to their antiretroviral therapy (ART). Poor adherence can lead to unsuppressed virus, more advanced HIV disease and poorer health outcomes, eventually exhausting treatment options. To date however, there are few demonstrated interventions for youth failing first line therapy. This study evaluated a novel intervention that used remote coaching through video enabled counseling sessions, an Electronic Dose Monitoring (EDM) pill bottle that notified an adherence coach when youth failed to open/close the device around dose time, and problem solving outreach by the coach in response to not dosing from the EDM. This intensive 'boot camp' strategy was implemented for 12 weeks followed by observation through 48 weeks.
The main objective of this study is to analyse sexual behavior of HIV + MSM in Bordeaux, who have sexually contracted hepatitis C between January 1st 2013, to January 31, 2017. These data will bring some improvement about prevention and maybe reduced the hepatitis C incidence.
This study, "Linking Infectious and Narcology Care - Part II (LINC-II)," will implement and evaluate a multi-faceted intervention (LINC-II), via a two-armed randomized controlled trial among 240 HIV-infected PWID in St. Petersburg. LINC-II, comprised of pharmacological therapy (i.e., rapid access to ART and receipt of naltrexone for opioid use disorder) and 12 months of strengths-based case management, will assess HIV outcomes (e.g., HIV viral load suppression), impact on care systems and cost-effectiveness of the intervention.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and immune response to an HIV clade C vaccine and to an MF59- or alum-adjuvanted clade C Env protein in healthy, HIV-uninfected adults.
More than 150,000 babies became infected with HIV in 2015 alone. When HIV drugs are started before or early in pregnancy, HIV positive women can give birth to HIV negative baby. This is possible because HIV drugs can reduce the amount of the virus in the body to the extent that they become undetectable by the time of delivery and during the breastfeeding period. However, some women do not start taking these drugs on time because they become infected during pregnancy or lactation. This leads to detectable virus at the time of delivery and puts the baby at risk of becoming infected. Also, the amounts of HIV drugs in the body have to be at certain levels for them to work effectively. But findings from some research have recently showed that pregnancy increases the rate at which the body removes some HIV drugs used to prevent the transfer of HIV from mother to child. While this may not cause any problem in women with no detectable virus before pregnancy, it may affect the rate at which the HIV virus is removed from the body in those starting treatment late and may put the baby at risk. This project will investigate whether the changes in drug exposure caused by pregnancy or other factors have any effect on the rate at which the HIV virus is removed from the body. HIV positive pregnant women and those who recently delivered will be recruited from different hospitals and follow up will be until breastfeeding ends. The investigators will not be involved in treatment decisions and the primary care provider will be responsible for prescribing antiretroviral regimen based on current guidelines. Samples will be collected to measure levels of the virus and the drugs in three fluids that transfer the virus to the baby: blood, genital fluid, and breastmilk. The HIV status of the babies will be monitored until they stop breastfeeding.
This study will evaluate the frequency of ovulation and cervical mucus quality of HIV-infected women on efavirenz (EFV)-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) using either a single etonogestrel (ENG) implant or two ENG implants for at least one year.
Low viral replication persistence and immune activation remain important therapeutic challenge in the new HAART era. They are associated with more rapid disease progression, increased risk of mortality and non-AIDS defining events. Soluble biomarkers are a convenient way of assessing immune activation and inflammation in HIV-infected patients receiving effective treatment. There are limited data describing the different effects of currently recommended antiretroviral regimens on immune activation and inflammation during HIV infection. Several studies have shown that raltegravir (the first approved drug from integrase inhibitor class) seems to have more impact on decreasing systemic inflammation compared with other drug classes. Integrase inhibitors may decrease inflammation and immune activation more than other antiretroviral drugs, because they are more lipid friendly and may concentrate better in enterocytes. The aim of this observational study is to compare the impact of different integrase inhibitor based regimen on changes in markers of inflammation (Il-2, IL-6, sTNFR-1, sCD14, sCD163, sICAM, hsRCP , sVCAM, LPS, D-dimer) during the first year of effective first-line combination. This is a 48-week observational retrospective study, to compare the change in infiammatory markers between naïve patients who start INI based regimen. Participants will be recruited from the HIV outpatient clinic. The study compare the impact of commonly used first-line antiretroviral drugs on soluble markers of inflammation and immune activation. The study is conducted on treatment-naive HIV-infected patients who experience a rapid and persistent virological response and that do not switch their initial regimen for at least 1 years. The analyses will be adjusted for baseline characteristics that might influence the choice of cART regimen or affect biomarker levels, such as age, smoking status, CD4 cell count, plasma HIV-1 viral load. Investigators enroll patients with a rapid and persistent virological response and that do not experience any blips. Cryopreserved plasma sample are obtained at baseline and at month 6 and 12 after treatment starting. Two NRTI backbone combinations (TDF/FTC vs ABC/3TC) and three third agents (RAL vs ELV vs DTG) will be compared in a factorial design. The results will be expressed as the estimated percentage difference between the mean fold changes observed with a given drug, using TDF/FTC and RAL as the reference groups for the comparison.
This is a prospective cohort study designed to define the impact of HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy (ART) on young adults with perinatal HIV infection as they transition to adulthood.
Phase IV, Single-Arm, Open-Label Study Evaluating Bone Mineral Density in HIV-1-Infected Adults ≥50 Years Old Switching from EVG/COBI/FTC/TAF (Genvoya) or EVG/COBI/FTC/TDF (Stribild) to ABC/DTG/3TC (Triumeq)
Among people with HIV, the severity of depressive symptoms has repeatedly been associated with the presence of self-reported cognitive difficulties, even in the absence of impairment on neuropsychological testing. There is uncertainty about the clinical importance of these self-reports, especially when neuropsychological testing is normal. However, there is growing evidence that these self-reports are clinically important. For example, among patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), evidence suggests that functional impairments is mediated by self-reported cognitive dysfunction, rather than objective cognitive dysfunction. Treatment of depression with Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has been shown to improve depressive symptoms and psychosocial functioning in patients with recurrent major depressive disorder, but there are few studies of the impact of psychotherapy on self-reported cognition and cognitive performance. Good Days Ahead (GDA) is a computerized treatment program developed to address symptoms of depression and anxiety. It teaches the basic principles of computerized behavioral therapy (CBT) in nine therapy sessions, each typically taking 30 minutes to complete. GDA has been found to be as effective as face-to-face CBT in decreasing symptoms of depression and anxiety. The hypothesis is that people whose depressive symptoms are reduced following treatment with cCBT will also report fewer cognitive difficulties than before treatment. A second hypothesis is that changes in self-reported cognition will be concordant with changes in cognitive performance, such that people who make no improvement in self-report cognition will also show no improvement in cognitive performance and those who do improve on self-report will improve on cognitive performance.