Harm reduction services to prevent and treat infectious diseases in people who use drugs

K Thakarar, K Nenninger, W Agmas - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2020 - id.theclinics.com
Harm reduction encompasses practical strategies, programs, and policies to help mitigate
the negative consequences of drug use. Grounded in social justice, harm reduction is based …

Optimising HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and testing strategies in men who have sex with men in Australia, Thailand, and China: a modelling study and cost …

R Zhao, CK Fairley, AR Cook, N Phanuphak… - The Lancet Global …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Asia-Pacific region have a
disproportionately high burden of HIV infection compared with the general population …

Calibration and validation of the colorectal cancer and adenoma incidence and mortality (CRC-AIM) microsimulation model using deep neural networks

V Vahdat, O Alagoz, JV Chen, L Saoud… - Medical Decision …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives Machine learning (ML)–based emulators improve the calibration of decision-
analytical models, but their performance in complex microsimulation models is yet to be …

[HTML][HTML] Egocentric sexual networks of men who have sex with men in the United States: Results from the ARTnet study

KM Weiss, SM Goodreau, M Morris, P Prasad… - Epidemics, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present an overview and descriptive results from one of the first egocentric
network studies of men who have sex with men (MSM) from across the United States: the …

Estimating the impact of HIV PrEP regimens containing long-acting injectable cabotegravir or daily oral tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine among men who …

KM Mitchell, MC Boily, B Hanscom, M Moore… - The Lancet Regional …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background The HPTN 083 trial demonstrated superiority of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
(PrEP) containing long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB) to daily oral tenofovir disoproxil …

What will it take to end HIV in the United States? A comprehensive, local-level modeling study

AT Fojo, M Schnure, P Kasaie, DW Dowdy… - Annals of internal …, 2021 - acpjournals.org
Background: The Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative aims to reduce incident HIV
infections by 90% over a span of 10 years. The intensity of interventions needed to achieve …

The relationship between age and sex partner counts during the mpox outbreak in the UK, 2022

J Brainard, LE Smith, HWW Potts, GJ Rubin - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Understanding the dynamics of an infectious disease outbreak linked to sexual
activity requires valid expectations of likely counts of unique sex partners during the …

Population‐level impact of expanding PrEP coverage by offering long‐acting injectable PrEP to MSM in three high‐resource settings: a model comparison analysis

SE Stansfield, J Heitner, KM Mitchell… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Long‐acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB‐LA) demonstrated superiority to daily
tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) for HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis …

A qualitative assessment in acceptability and barriers to use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among men who have sex with men: implications for service delivery in …

LH Nguyen, HLT Nguyen, BX Tran, M Larsson… - BMC Infectious …, 2021 - Springer
Background HIV Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is being considered for implementation
among MSM nationwide in Vietnam. However, there may be concerns about potential …

A modeling framework to inform preexposure prophylaxis initiation and retention scale-up in the context of 'Getting to Zero'initiatives

AS Khanna, JA Schneider, N Collier, J Ozik, R Issema… - Aids, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objective (s):'Getting to Zero'(GTZ) initiatives aim to eliminate new HIV infections over a
projected time frame. Increased preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake among populations …