Home testing for HIV infection in resource-limited settings

Viral load testing in resource-limited settings.

HIV Care & PMTCT in Resource-Limited Settings

edited. Objectives: We aimed to compare the incidence of meningococcal disease amongst HIV-infected and uninfected individuals and to evaluate whether HIV is a risk factor for mortality and bacteremia amongst patients with meningococcal disease. Design: Cohort surveillance study. Methods: We conducted laboratory-based surveillance for meningococcal disease in Gauteng Province, South Africa. HIV...

HIV Testing for Children in Resource-Limited Settings: What Are We Waiting For?

Expansion of prevention of mother-to-child transmission in resource-limited settings remains a challenge. In many countries, most HIV-exposed infants do not benefit from PMTCT programs, which results in a 30% or more transmission rate. Vertically infected infants not diagnosed in the context of PMTCT are rarely diagnosed until symptomatic with HIV, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality...

Screening for HIV-associated peripheral neuropathy in resource-limited settings.

INTRODUCTION Peripheral neuropathy is the most common neurological complication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection but is widely under-diagnosed in resource-limited settings. We investigated the utility of screening tools administered by nonphysician healthcare workers (HCW) and quantitative sensory testing (QST) administered by trained individuals for identification of moderate/se...

Provider Initiated Testing and Counseling (PITC) for HIV in resource-limited clinical settings: important questions unanswered

Pan African Medical Journal, 2009 3:4 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/editorial/3/4/ © Joseph Becker et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribut...