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Characterization of HIV-Related Stigma in Myanmar
Characterizing HIV-related stigma and its impacts are important for interventions toward their elimination. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2016 to evaluate enacted and internalized stigma among adult...
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Open Access“I have never talked to anyone to free my mind” – challenges surrounding status disclosure to adolescents contribute to their disengagement from HIV care: a qualitative study in western Kenya
Adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV, ages 10–19) experience complex barriers to care engagement. Challenges surrounding HIV status disclosure or non-disclosure to adolescents may contribute to adolescent diseng...
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Open AccessEmpirical comparison of analytical approaches for identifying molecular HIV-1 clusters
Public health interventions guided by clustering of HIV-1 molecular sequences may be impacted by choices of analytical approaches. We identified commonly-used clustering analytical approaches, applied them to ...
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Open AccessPerformance comparison of next generation sequencing analysis pipelines for HIV-1 drug resistance testing
Next generation sequencing (NGS) is a trending new standard for genotypic HIV-1 drug resistance (HIVDR) testing. Many NGS HIVDR data analysis pipelines have been independently developed, each with variable out...
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Open AccessComparison of predicted susceptibility between genotype and virtual phenotype HIV drug resistance interpretation systems among treatment-naive HIV-infected patients in Asia: TASER-M cohort analysis
Accurate interpretation of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) testing is challenging, yet important for patient care. We compared genoty** interpretation, based on the Stanford University HIV Drug Resistance Databa...
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Open AccessHIV-2 diagnosis and quantification in high-risk patients
Current diagnostic assays for HIV-1 do not always test for the presence of HIV-2 in the United States. We present the case of a patient from Cape Verde, who was admitted to our hospital with rapidly deteriorat...
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Open AccessThe HIV-1 Non-subtype B Workgroup: An International Collaboration for the Collection and Analysis of HIV-1 Non-subtype B Data