Diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus infection

BS Parekh, CY Ou, PN Fonjungo… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY HIV diagnostics have played a central role in the remarkable progress in
identifying, staging, initiating, and monitoring infected individuals on life-saving antiretroviral …

[HTML][HTML] Use of HIV recency assays for HIV incidence estimation and other surveillance use cases: systematic review

SN Facente, E Grebe, AD Maher, D Fox… - JMIR public health …, 2022 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background: HIV assays designed to detect recent infection, also known as “recency
assays,” are often used to estimate HIV incidence in a specific country, region, or …

Recent HIV infection among pregnant women in the 2017 antenatal sentinel cross–sectional survey, South Africa: Assay–based incidence measurement

S Woldesenbet, T Kufa-Chakezha, C Lombard… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Introduction New HIV infection during pre-conception and pregnancy is a significant
contributor of mother–to–child transmission of HIV in South Africa. This study estimated HIV …

A network intervention that locates and intervenes with recently HIV-infected persons: The Transmission Reduction Intervention Project (TRIP)

GK Nikolopoulos, E Pavlitina, SQ Muth, J Schneider… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Early treatment, soon after infection, reduces HIV transmissions and benefits patients. The
Transmission Reduction Intervention Project (TRIP) evaluated a network intervention to …

HIV incidence estimation among female sex workers in South Africa: a multiple methods analysis of cross-sectional survey data

R Kassanjee, A Welte, K Otwombe, M Jaffer… - The lancet HIV, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Although numerous studies have investigated HIV risk factors and shown high
HIV prevalence among female sex workers in South Africa, no national HIV incidence …

A comparison of South African national HIV incidence estimates: a critical appraisal of different methods

T Rehle, L Johnson, T Hallett, M Mahy, A Kim, H Odido… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background The interpretation of HIV prevalence trends is increasingly difficult as
antiretroviral treatment programs expand. Reliable HIV incidence estimates are critical to …

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness and use within high HIV transmission networks

K Schueler, M Ferreira, G Nikolopoulos, B Skaathun… - AIDS and Behavior, 2019 - Springer
Improved implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) should be a valuable tool
within communities experiencing high HIV incidence, such as black men who have sex with …

Transmission network and phylogenetic analysis reveal older male-centered transmission of CRF01_AE and CRF07_BC in Guangxi, China

F Zhang, Y Yang, N Liang, H Liang… - Emerging Microbes & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In China, the number of newly reported HIV infections in older people is increasing rapidly.
However, clear information on the impact of older people on HIV transmission is limited. This …

Recent HIV Infection: Diagnosis and Public Health Implications

GK Nikolopoulos, AG Tsantes - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The early period of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been associated
with higher infectiousness and, consequently, with more transmission events. Over the last …

Facilitating next‐generation pre‐exposure prophylaxis clinical trials using HIV recent infection assays: a consensus statement from the Forum HIV Prevention Trial …

N Parkin, F Gao, E Grebe, A Cutrell… - Clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Standard‐of‐care HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly efficacious, but uptake of
and persistence on a daily oral pill is low in many settings. Evaluation of alternate PrEP …