Scale-up of HIV treatment through PEPFAR: a historic public health achievement

WM El-Sadr, CB Holmes, P Mugyenyi… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2012‏ - journals.lww.com
Since its inception in 2003, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
has been an important driving force behind the global scale-up of HIV care and treatment …

Nanoparticle-based drug delivery to improve the efficacy of antiretroviral therapy in the central nervous system

MJ Gomes, J Neves, B Sarmento - International journal of …, 2014‏ - Taylor & Francis
Antiretroviral drug therapy plays a cornerstone role in the treatment of human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients. Despite …

Quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS: a cross-sectional study in Zhejiang Province, China

M Li**, X Peng, L Haijiang, J Lahong, L Fan - PloS one, 2015‏ - journals.plos.org
Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has become a concept commonly used in the related
research. Using the World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire for Brief Version …

Improved quality of life with immediate versus deferred initiation of antiretroviral therapy in early asymptomatic HIV infection

AR Lifson, B Grund, EM Gardner, R Kaplan, E Denning… - Aids, 2017‏ - journals.lww.com
Objective: To determine if immediate compared to deferred initiation of antiretroviral therapy
(ART) in healthy persons living with HIV had a more favorable impact on health-related …

In a study of a population cohort in South Africa, HIV patients on antiretrovirals had nearly full recovery of employment

J Bor, F Tanser, ML Newell, T Bärnighausen - Health affairs, 2012‏ - healthaffairs.org
Antiretroviral therapy for HIV may have important economic benefits for patients and their
households. We quantified the impact of HIV treatment on employment status among HIV …

Quality of life outcomes of antiretroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS patients in Vietnam

BX Tran - PloS one, 2012‏ - journals.plos.org
Objective This study assessed health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and its related factors in
HIV/AIDS patients taking antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Vietnam. Methods A cross …

Quality of life of Nigerians living with human immunodeficiency virus

AO Akinboro, SO Akinyemi, PB Olaitan… - The Pan African …, 2014‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction Few reports from Nigeria have examined the quality of life (QOL) of people
living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) despite the fact that Nigeria has the second largest number of …

HIV, multimorbidity, and health-related quality of life in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A population-based study

AM Stanton, RL Boyd, C O'Cleirigh, S Olivier… - Plos one, 2024‏ - journals.plos.org
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) assesses the perceived impact of health status across
life domains. Although research has explored the relationship between specific conditions …

Health related quality of life of people receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy in Southwest Ethiopia

A Desta, TT Biru, AT Kefale - PloS one, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) is a standard of HIV management
to suppress viral load and delay progression to AIDS. However, questions have been raised …

Linkage to care following a home‐based HIV counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa

R Naik, T Doherty, D Jackson, H Tabana… - Journal of the …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Efforts to increase awareness of HIV status have led to growing interest in
community‐based models of HIV testing. Maximizing the benefits of such programmes …