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Filter by:The long-term goal of this work is to reduce the prevalence of HIV and domestic violence among women at risk by encouraging self-protective behaviors. To obtain this goal, Multnomah County Health Department and Oregon Department of Human Services have conducted a randomized trial of an intervention to prevent HIV and domestic violence among women who have recent criminal justice involvement and who are at risk for HIV infection. Women enrolled in the study were randomly assigned to one of three study conditions: - Group 1: these women received information on local resources addressing HIV prevention, domestic violence, and life stability issues; they did not receive any counseling sessions as part of the study itself. - Group 2: these women received up to ten supportive counseling sessions based on the techniques of motivational interviewing. These sessions aimed to reduce HIV risk and to improve life stability. - Group 3: these women received up to ten supportive counseling sessions based on motivational interviewing. These sessions aimed to reduce risk for HIV and domestic violence and to improve life stability. The primary hypotheses of this study were: - 1. Supportive counseling (motivational interviewing) addressing HIV prevention and increased life stability will lead to reductions of HIV risk behavior among women enrolled in the study. - 2. Supportive counseling (motivational interviewing) addressing domestic violence prevention, HIV prevention, and increased life stability, will bring about reductions in experiences of domestic violence and a reduction of HIV risk among these women. - 3. The supportive counseling received in this study will enhance these women's self-efficacy, self-esteem, and psychological well-being. Women in all three experimental groups were interviewed at the beginning of the study and again after 4, 7, and 10 months. These assessment interviews asked questions about: HIV risk; experiences of domestic violence; and life stability issues such as education, employment, and housing; and included biological testing for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. Women in Group 2 and Group 3 participated in up to 10 sessions of supportive counseling (motivational interviewing) between the time of enrollment and the 4-month interviews.
Concomitant administration of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) may boost the expansion of immune reconstitution and broaden specific T cell responses not achievable by vaccination alone. The main objective of that study is to test the validity of this hypothesis with vaccines which are routinely administered to HIV-1 patients(tetanus toxoid and hepatitis A virus vaccines) in order to, if proven of value, use this strategy of HIV vaccination in the near future. This is a pilot, randomized, clinical open label study aimed to investigate thymic functionality and the HIV-specific responses after administration of rhGH in HIV-1 infected patients in highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimen.
The specific aims for this study are - 1. To determine the effect of GH on height, height velocity, body weight and lean body mass. This specific aim tests the hypothesis that GH significantly improves height, height velocity, weight, weight velocity and lean body mass in chronically ill children who have grown poorly despite adequate nutritional rehabilitation. 2. To determine the effect of GH on whole body protein turnover (WBPT), IGF-1 levels and on cytokines. This specific aim tests the hypothesis that chronically ill children have increased catabolism, caused by high levels of circulating cytokines and low levels of IGF-1, and that these abnormalities improve with GH treatment. 3. Evaluation of bone mineral density and bone turnover. This specific aim tests the hypothesis that bone density is low in chronically ill children secondary to increased osteoclast activity correlating with elevated cytokine levels. We hypothesize that the anabolic effects of growth hormone (GH) will improve the height and weight of chronically ill children who have failed to grow despite receiving adequate nutrition via gastrostomy tube or oral supplementation.
This is a pilot study. We will treat 10 HIV-infected adults (1/2 with lipoatrophy) with GH depot for one year. Results will be compared to data from 10 HIV patients (1/2 with lipoatrophy), treated with Nutropin AQ subcutaneously. The primary endpoint of the study is to determine the effect of GH depot on body weight and lean tissue mass (LTM). The secondary endpoints are to document changes in: 1) whole body protein turnover (WBPT), 2) gluconeogenesis, 3) bone mineral density and markers of bone turnover, 4) fat distribution (lipoatrophy), 5) thymus size, 6) T-cell subsets, and 7) TNF-µ levels. Adverse events, such as glucose intolerance and edema, will be monitored at every visit.
30 patients with poor antiretroviral therapy compliance will be identified from our pool of patients at Saint Michael’s Medical Center and be given Directly observed therapy.
The primary purpose of this study was to test the whether high-risk, HIV-seronegative persons with mild-to-moderate depression would be more likely to adopt protective behavior change when provided with pharmacotherapy for their depression than when treated with placebo. High-risk behaviors include using illegal drugs and participating in unprotected sexual intercourse. The specific pharmacotherapy used in this study was the anti-depressant, bupropion. The subject population consisted of HIV negative men who have sex with men (MSM) with mild-to-moderate depression.
The purpose of this study is to identify differences in TB specific immune responses among immunosuppressed patients latently infected with TB and patients with active TB.
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and immunogenicity of two MVA smallpox vaccine injections in healthy adults that are 18-35 years of age with HIV infection
Guidelines have continued to list lopinavir/ritonavir as a preferred protease inhibitor-containing regimen for HIV-infected individuals. There has recently been increasing interest in once daily therapy. While lopinavir/ritonavir has recently been approved as a once daily therapy it was associated with considerable diarrhea in those treated with soft gel capsules. It is the hope that alternative formulations of lopinavir/ritonavir may provide similar pharmacokinetics with improved tolerability. This includes the possibility of using liquid or newly released tablets. This study will treat people tolerating their current regimen with up to four weeks of each formulation with several assessments of pharmacokinetics and tolerability for each.
A selection study in treatment naive HIV patients to compare the virologic success rate of once daily antiretroviral treatment regimens at the 48th week with Epzicom(lamivudine and abacavir) plus efavirenz and Epzicom plus ritonavir boosted atazanavir. The superior regimen will be hired to the comparative study to the current first line regimen (tenofovir plus lamivudine plus efavirenz)