"Seroprevalence , NIH". clinicalinfo.hiv.gov. Retrieved 24 August 2021. HIV Portland Glossary definition of seroprevalence v t e ... Seroprevalence is the number of persons in a population who test positive for a specific disease based on serology (blood serum ... HIV, and SARS-CoV-2), this number is not significant if the specificity of the antibody is low.[citation needed] " ...

Seroprevalence surveys give an idea about the rates of HIV infections among various groups of people, however, using this data ... HIV seroprevalence surveys, evaluating archived data on AIDS infections in the past, and adolescent risk-taking behaviors are ... Vermund SH (1991). "Changing estimates of HIV-1 seroprevalence in the United States". Journal of NIH Research. 3: 77-81. ... Evaluating archived data of AIDS infections in the past is useful for obtaining an idea of how current HIV trends may be, but ...

It has increased in areas where HIV seroprevalence is high. Air travel and the other methods of travel which have made global ... It is believed that HIV arose from another, less harmful virus, that mutated and became more virulent. The first two AIDS/HIV ... Initially, HIV prevention methods focused primarily on preventing the sexual transmission of HIV through behaviour change. The ... "Statistics - Statistics, how many people living with HIV - Statistics - HIV Facts - National AIDS Trust - NAT". Archived from ...

Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale (15 September 2004). "HIV seroprevalence in northern Uganda: The complex ... Studies of HIV-infected adults in Uganda showed risky sexual behavior to have declined, contributing to the decline in HIV ... In 2018, an estimated 1.4 million people in Uganda were infected with HIV, and the HIV prevalence rate in the country was 5.7 ... According to a 2015 study, impediments to reducing HIV incidence include food insecurity in rural areas and stigma against HIV ...

Cantor KP, Weiss SH, Goedert JJ, Battjes RJ (1991). "HTLV-I/II seroprevalence and HIV/HTLV coinfection among U.S. intravenous ... Like HIV, HTLV-1 predominantly infects CD4+ T cells. The viral RNA is packed into the icosahedral capsid which is contained ... HIV testing should also be performed, as some patients may be co-infected with both viruses.[citation needed] Allogenic bone ... HTLV-1, unlike the distantly related retrovirus HIV, has an immunostimulating effect which actually becomes immunosuppressive. ...

Nnadozie, Prince; Onyenanu, Sylva (October 24, 2018). "Sero-Prevalence of HIV in Hawkers: A Rural Community-Based Cohorts in ... The prevalence of HIV in Nigeria varies widely by region and states. Akwa Ibom State has the highest prevalence rate of HIV ... The Nigeria HIV/AIDS indicator and impact survey 2018 revealed that the national HIV prevalence rate among adults ages 15-49 is ... Youth and young adults in Nigeria are particularly vulnerable to HIV, with young women at higher risk than young men. Malaria, ...

December 2014). "Impact of HLA-driven HIV adaptation on virulence in populations of high HIV seroprevalence". Proceedings of ... The subtypes of HIV include two main subtypes, known as HIV type 1 (HIV-1) and HIV type 2 (HIV-2). These subtypes have distinct ... HIV superinfection History of HIV/AIDS Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS Timeline of HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS research Discovery and ... HIV/AIDS at Curlie HIV Types at Avert.org 3D macromolecular structures of HIV-1 at the EM Data Bank(EMDB) Archived 2020-08-08 ...

"High HCV seroprevalence and HIV drug use risk behaviors among injection drug users in Pakistan". Harm Reduction Journal. 3: 26 ... Sharing blood in this manner carries a very high risk of transmitting viruses such as hepatitis and HIV, which are prevalent ... "KENYA: 'Flash blood' puts drug users at risk of HIV" Archived 2010-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, PlusNews, February 24, 2010. ... Reid, Savanna R (2009). "Injection drug use, unsafe medical injections, and HIV in Africa: a systematic review". Harm Reduction ...

Trans women who are sex workers are at particular risk for HIV. The seroprevalence of HIV among trans women sex workers ... The HIV Consortium for Social and Policy Research on HIV, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases. p. 3. Retrieved April 26, 2012. ... Most of the reports deal with ways to decrease the number of workers that contract HIV/AIDS so that the disease is not spread ... The study found that they have the highest rate of HIV because they often sell sex as a means of supplementing their salary. ...

... an estimated 260,000 were living with HIV and there were 12,000 HIV related annual deaths. A population based study was ... conducted in 2002 which estimated the sero-prevalence to be 1.6%. According to recent studies, the HIV and AIDS prevalence in ... Sudan is considered to be a country with an intermediate HIV and AIDS prevalence by the World Health Organization (WHO). The ... In Sudan, heterosexual transmission accounted for 97% of HIV positive cases. As of January 5, 2011, the Adult(15-49) prevalence ...

In countries with low seroprevalence, HHV-8 is primarily limited to AIDS and KS patients. In countries with high seroprevalence ... Individuals infected with HIV-1 or genital warts are generally more likely to be co-infected with HHV-8. ... Fu, B; Sun, F; Li, B; Yang, L; Zeng, Y; Sun, X; Xu, F; Rayner, S; Guadalupe, M; Gao, S. J.; Wang, L (2009). "Seroprevalence of ... Although seroprevalence has been consistently shown to increase with age in a linear manner, countries with high infection ...

Abdool Karim, Q.; Abdool Karim, S. S.; Singh, B.; Short, R.; Ngxongo, S. (December 1992). "Seroprevalence of HIV infection in ... ISBN 978-0-19-881013-1. "UNAIDS SPECIAL AMBASSADOR FOR ADOLESCENTS AND HIV" (PDF). "UJ honors pioneering HIV/Aids expert, ... as the UNAIDS Special Ambassador for Adolescents and HIV. Outside of her research in HIV and AIDS, Abdool Karim has also worked ... The underlying aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Tenefovir gel in reducing the risk of HIV contraction. The ...

... among homeless women and an even higher prevalence among HIV positive homeless women. Despite this seroprevalence, homeless ... HSV-2 increases the risk of HIV infection. Most homeless women are unaware of their HSV-2 infection, which renders them more ... Unprotected heterosexual sex is also the most common way HIV is spread to homeless women in the United States, with intravenous ... Besides financial instability, the contraction of HIV/AIDS has been shown to be more associated with homelessness. Homeless ...

HIV) Sero-Prevalence among Women in Namibia: Further Analysis of Population-Based Data". International Journal of Environmental ... HIV/AIDS is largely prevalent within Namibia. HIV-related deaths reached its peak in 2004, when 12,000 people died, but has ... Of the poorest women in Namibia, the HIV prevalence rate is at 21.4%, compared to the richest households with an HIV prevalence ... The socioeconomic status of women remains a significant indicator of HIV status. ...

HIV Sero - prevalence in adults aged between 15-49 years in Ethiopia is estimated at 1.5% [5.5% urban, 0.7% rural]. However, ... HIV, harmful traditional practices, and violence against women. Ethiopia is the oldest independent and second most-populous ...

Seroprevalence of HIV-1, HIV-2, and HIV-1 group O in Nigeria: evidence for a growing increase of HIV infection. Journal of ... There, she has concentrated on the work of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health and rights issues in several sub-Saharan African ... Esu-Williams, E. (2000). Gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa− Our Hope Lies in the Future. Journal of health communication, 5(sup1), ... Articles with short description, Short description matches Wikidata, Articles with hCards, 1950 births, Living people, HIV/AIDS ...

HIV-2) seroprevalence and characterization of a distinct HIV-2 genetic subtype from the natural range of simian ... The HIV-1 strain by contrast came from the common chimpanzee strain of SIV. Sooty mangabeys can also contract leprosy, caused ... resulting in HIV-2 virus. Because sooty mangabeys, as natural hosts of SIV, do not get sick from SIV, much research has been ... "Tracing the origin and history of the HIV-2 epidemic". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100 (11): 6588-6592. ...

... where the HIV seroprevalence rate among adults is approximately 17 percent. Although men involved in same-sex sexual ... In April 2013, Paul Kasonkomona, a notable Zambian LGBT activist, was arrested for speaking about LBGT and HIV related issues ... PDF sourced via United States Mission to the United Nations] "NEWS RELEASE: ZAMBIA HIGH COURT CONFIRMS ACQUITTAL OF HIV ... As of July 2007, no public or private programmes provide HIV-related counselling to homosexual men in Zambia, ...

... and counseling for HIV positive participants. This project also drew samples for a seroprevalence study. During the course of ... During the mid to late-1980s, many U.S. and European projects were concerned with proving that HIV-1, which had only been ... Project SIDA had three main objectives upon its conception: to identify risk factors of HIV transmission, to identify modes of ... Project SIDA also identified a HIV prevalence of 6-7% of expectant mothers at Mama Yemo while working with the hospital's ...

... hiv seroprevalence MeSH G03.850.520.450.535 - clinical trials MeSH G03.850.520.450.535.200 - clinical trials, phase i MeSH ...

... hiv seroprevalence MeSH N05.715.360.775.225 - clinical protocols MeSH N05.715.360.775.225.500 - antineoplastic protocols MeSH ...

Since 1983, Cournos has worked on "the interface of HIV and mental illness" which included publishing the first seroprevalence ... "Francine Cournos, MD". HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies. Retrieved August 23, 2022. "Dr Francine Cournos - Making ... Cournos is also Principal Investigator of the Northeast Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center at the HIV Center for ... "HIV and People with Serious Mental Illness: The Public Sector's Role in Reducing Health Risk and Improving Care". Psychiatric ...

... hiv seroprevalence MeSH E05.318.760.535 - clinical trials MeSH E05.318.760.535.200 - clinical trials, phase i MeSH E05.318. ...

... and microbiology of adjunctive etanercept in HIV-1-associated tuberculosis (2004), Impact of tuberculosis (TB) on HIV-1 ... Ziraba, Abdhalah K.; Bwogi, Josephine; Namale, Alice; Wainaina, Caroline W.; Mayanja-Kizza, Harriet (2010-06-29). "Sero-prevalence ... Sero-prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis B virus infection among health care workers in a tertiary hospital in Uganda ( ... on HIV-1 activity in dually infected patients". Clinical and Experimental Immunology. 123 (2): 233-238. doi:10.1046/j.1365- ...

As of 2016 there were no case reports in the literature describing cases of TS in patients with HIV-AIDS. There is compelling ... estimates of seroprevalence (that is, prevalence of detectable antibodies against viral proteins) in immunocompetent adults ... "Seroprevalence of trichodysplasia spinulosa-associated polyomavirus". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 17 (8): 1355-63. doi: ...

"Seroprevalence of Viral Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Disease Among Adults with Recently Diagnosed HIV Infection in ... HIV positive trans persons are likely to be unaware of their status. In one study, 73% of HIV-positive trans women were unaware ... An estimated 62% of adult and adolescent American males living with HIV/AIDS got it through sexual contact with other men. HIV- ... but more likely than heterosexually behaving men to be HIV-positive. Although there are no confirmed cases of HIV transmitted ...

Roberts, BW; Cech, I (2005). "Association of type 2 diabetes mellitus and seroprevalence for cytomegalovirus". Southern Medical ... Stratton, Richard; Slapak, Gabrielle; Mahungu, Tabitha; Loes, Sabine Kinloch-de (2009). "Autoimmunity and HIV". Current Opinion ... Carbone, Antonino; Gloghini, Annunziata; Serraino, Diego; Spina, Michele (2009). "HIV-associated Hodgkin lymphoma". Current ... "Herpes virus antibodies seroprevalence in children with autoimmune thyroid disease". Endocrine. 33 (2): 171-5. doi:10.1007/ ...

FIV and HIV are both lentiviruses. However, humans cannot be infected by FIV, nor can cats be infected by HIV. FIV is ... Additionally, seroprevalence studies show companion cats to have a 4-12% occurrence while feral cats have an 8-19% prevalence ... "Feline immunodeficiency virus model for designing HIV/AIDS vaccines", Current HIV Research, 8 (1): 14-25, doi:10.2174/ ... Like HIV-1, FIV has been engineered into a viral vector for gene therapy. Like other lentiviral vectors, FIV vectors integrate ...

The use of "HTLV-3" can cause some confusion, because the name HTLV-III was one of the names for HIV in early AIDS literature, ... In the United States, HTLV-1/2 seroprevalence rates among volunteer blood donors average 0.016 percent.[citation needed] No ... 1993). "HIV-1 and HTLV-I in sexually transmitted disease clinics in the Dominican Republic". Journal of Acquired Immune ... The name HTLV-IV has also been used to describe HIV-2. A large Canadian study documented this confusion among healthcare ...

HIV). In HIV infected persons, HCMV is considered an AIDS-defining infection, indicating that the T-cell count has dropped to ... Seroprevalence is age-dependent: 58.9% of individuals aged 6 and older are infected with CMV while 90.8% of individuals aged 80 ... HCMV infection is typically unnoticed in healthy people, but can be life-threatening for the immunocompromised, such as HIV- ... Staras SA, Dollard SC, Radford KW, Flanders WD, Pass RF, Cannon MJ (November 2006). "Seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus ...