Improving measurement of tuberculosis care cascades to enhance people-centred care

L Faust, P Naidoo, G Caceres-Cardenas… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Care cascades represent the proportion of people reaching milestones in care for a disease
and are widely used to track progress towards global targets for HIV and other diseases …

Epistemic bunkers

K Furman - Social Epistemology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
One reason that fake news and other objectionable views gain traction is that they often
come to us in the form of testimony from those in our immediate social circles–from those we …

HIV treatment, antiretroviral adherence and AIDS mortality in people who inject drugs: a scoping review

A Uusküla, J Feelemyer… - European Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are a key population for the prevention and
care of HIV infection. Methods This scoping review covers recent (post-2010) systematic …

Perceptions of hepatitis C treatment and reinfection risk among HIV-positive men who have sex with men and engage in high risk behaviours for hepatitis C …

AD Marshall, M Martinello, C Treloar… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Globally, treatment uptake for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among HIV-HCV
coinfected men who have sex with men (MSM) has substantially increased since the advent …

'Not just one box that you tick off'–Deconstructing the hepatitis C care cascade in the interferon-free direct acting antiviral era from the client perspective

AD Marshall, J Rance, J Grebely, C Treloar - International Journal of Drug …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background To achieve hepatitis C viral (HCV) elimination targets set by the World Health
Organisation, pillars of the HCV care cascade are often referenced to track progress. The …

[HTML][HTML] Leaving no one behind? An equity analysis of the HIV care cascade among a cohort of people living with HIV in Manitoba, Canada

LM McClarty, JF Blanchard, ML Becker - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Manitoba is a central Canadian province with annual rates of new HIV
infections consistently higher than the Canadian average. National surveillance statistics …

Cyclical engagement in HIV care: a qualitative study of clinic transfers to re-enter HIV care in Cape Town, South Africa

A Beeman, AM Bengtson, A Swartz, CJ Colvin… - AIDS and Behavior, 2022 - Springer
Long-term patient engagement and retention in HIV care is an ongoing challenge in South
Africa's strained health system. However, some patients thought to be “lost to follow …

[HTML][HTML] " It gets people through the door": a qualitative case study of the use of incentives in the care of people at risk or living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada

M Gagnon, A Guta, R Upshur, SJ Murray, V Bungay - BMC Medical Ethics, 2020 - Springer
Background There has been growing interest in the use of incentives to increase the uptake
of health-related behaviours and achieve desired health outcomes at the individual and …

[HTML][HTML] Mortalidad evitable en la vigilancia de la mortalidad perinatal y neonatal, Colombia, 2017 y 2018

N Rozo-Gutiérrez, G Ávila-Mellizo - Rev Chil Salud Pública, 2021 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
métodos: Se realizó un estudio descriptivo de corte transversal de las muertes peri-natales y
neonatales tardías registradas en Colombia para 2017 y 2018. La fuente de información se …

[HTML][HTML] On trusting neighbors more than experts: An ebola case study

K Furman - Frontiers in Communication, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this paper I argue that rumors pose a challenge to effective science communication. I also
argue that it is sometimes reasonable for ordinary laypeople to trust rumors over the experts …