Molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 in Eastern Europe and Russia

MAA van de Klundert, A Antonova, G Di Teodoro… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
The HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe and Russia is large and not well-controlled. To
describe the more recent molecular epidemiology of HIV-1, transmitted drug resistance, and …

HIV-1 Drug Resistance among Treatment-Naïve Patients in Russia: Analysis of the National Database, 2006–2022

A Kirichenko, D Kireev, I Lapovok, A Shlykova… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
In Russia, antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage has significantly increased, which, in the
absence of routine genotyping testing, could lead to an increase in HIV drug resistance …

Virally suppressed people living with HIV who use opioids have diminished latency reversal

B Basukala, S Rossi, S Bendiks, N Gnatienko, G Patts… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Of the 12 million people who inject drugs worldwide, 13% live with HIV. Whether opioid use
impacts HIV pathogenesis and latency is an outstanding question. To gain insight into …

Phylodynamics and migration data help describe HIV transmission dynamics in internally displaced people who inject drugs in Ukraine

G Kovalenko, A Yakovleva, P Smyrnov… - PNAS …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Internally displaced persons are often excluded from HIV molecular epidemiology
surveillance due to structural, behavioral, and social barriers in access to treatment. We test …

HIV drug resistance

C Chu, L Pollock, RW Shafer - Fundamentals of HIV Medicine …, 2023 - books.google.com
Approximately 35% of persons with diagnosed HIV infection in the United States do not have
a suppressed viral load (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022), underscoring …

HIV drug resistance among patients experiencing antiretroviral therapy failure in Russia, 2019–2021

MV Sivay, LV Maksimenko, TM Nalimova… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Increasing HIV drug resistance is an important public health concern. The current study
aimed to assess HIV drug resistance among people who live with HIV (PLWH) experiencing …

Global and regional estimates of cervical cancer burden associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection from 1990 to 2019

Z Wan, J Zhao, L Xu, P Sun, P Shuai… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies reported human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) could enhance human
papillomavirus (HPV)‐induced cervical cancer. Therefore, the burden of cervical cancer …

Reconstructing the Temporal Origin and the Transmission Dynamics of the HIV Subtype B Epidemic in St. Petersburg, Russia

M Siljic, V Cirkovic, L Jovanovic, A Antonova… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Russia is among the fastest growing in the world. HIV epidemic
burden is non-uniform in different Russian regions and diverse key populations. An …

Prevalence of Pretreatment HIV-1 Drug Resistance in Armenia in 2017–2018 and 2020–2021 following a WHO Survey

A Kirichenko, D Kireev, I Lapovok, A Shlykova… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
The increased antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage of patients in the absence of routine
genotyping tests and in the context of active labor migration highlight the importance of HIV …

Identifying HIV-1 Transmission Clusters in Uzbekistan through Analysis of Molecular Surveillance Data

A Lebedev, A Kuznetsova, K Kim, E Ozhmegova… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
The CRF02_AG and sub-subtype A6 are currently the predominant HIV-1 variants in the
Republic of Uzbekistan, but little is known about their time-spatial clustering patterns in high …