HIV infection

LG Bekker, C Beyrer, N Mgodi, SR Lewin… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The AIDS epidemic has been a global public health issue for more than 40 years and has
resulted in~ 40 million deaths. AIDS is caused by the retrovirus, HIV-1, which is transmitted …

Global burden of HIV, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis in prisoners and detainees

K Dolan, AL Wirtz, B Moazen, M Ndeffo-Mbah… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
The prison setting presents not only challenges, but also opportunities, for the prevention
and treatment of HIV, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis. We did a comprehensive literature …

Worldwide burden of HIV in transgender women: a systematic review and meta-analysis

SD Baral, T Poteat, S Strömdahl, AL Wirtz… - The Lancet infectious …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background Previous systematic reviews have identified a high prevalence of HIV infection
in transgender women in the USA and in those who sell sex (compared with both female …

HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men in Brazil: results of the 2nd national survey using respondent-driven sampling

L Kerr, C Kendall, MDC Guimarães, RS Mota… - Medicine, 2018 - journals.lww.com
HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men in Brazil: re... : Medicine HIV prevalence
among men who have sex with men in Brazil: results of the 2nd national survey using …

Modified social ecological model: a tool to guide the assessment of the risks and risk contexts of HIV epidemics

S Baral, CH Logie, A Grosso, AL Wirtz, C Beyrer - BMC public health, 2013 - Springer
Background Social and structural factors are now well accepted as determinants of HIV
vulnerabilities. These factors are representative of social, economic, organizational and …

Repurposing drugs, ongoing vaccine, and new therapeutic development initiatives against COVID-19

RP Saha, AR Sharma, MK Singh, S Samanta… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
As the COVID-19 is still growing throughout the globe, a thorough investigation into the
specific immunopathology of SARS-CoV-2, its interaction with the host immune system and …

The prevalence of HIV among MSM in China: a large-scale systematic analysis

MJ Dong, B Peng, ZF Liu, Q Ye, H Liu, XL Lu… - BMC infectious …, 2019 - Springer
Background The prevalence of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) has become
a significant public health challenge. The aim was to comprehensively estimate the national …

Hidden from health: structural stigma, sexual orientation concealment, and HIV across 38 countries in the European MSM Internet Survey

JE Pachankis, ML Hatzenbuehler, F Hickson… - Aids, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Substantial country-level variation exists in prejudiced attitudes towards male
homosexuality and in the extent to which countries promote the unequal treatment of MSM …

Male sex workers: practices, contexts, and vulnerabilities for HIV acquisition and transmission

SD Baral, MR Friedman, S Geibel, K Rebe, B Bozhinov… - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Male sex workers who sell or exchange sex for money or goods encompass a very diverse
population across and within countries worldwide. Information characterising their practices …

The increase in global HIV epidemics in MSM

C Beyrer, P Sullivan, J Sanchez, SD Baral, C Collins… - Aids, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Epidemics of HIV in MSM continue to expand in most low, middle, and upper income
countries in 2013 and rates of new infection have been consistently high among young …