Counselorsâ acceptability of adherence counseling session recording, fidelity monitoring, and feedback in a multi-site HIV prevention study in four African countries

Biomedical HIV prevention trials increasingly include evidence-based adherence counseling to encourage product use. To retain effectiveness, interventions must contain key components. Monitoring counseling fidelity ensures inclusion of components but is …

Motor Neuron Disease: The Impact of Decreased Speech Intelligibility on Marital Communication

Background: The onset of motor neuron disease (MND); a neurodegenerative disease; results in physical and communication disabilities that impinge on an individual's ability to remain functionally independent. Multiple aspects of …

Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy to address hydrocephalus in Africa: A call for education and community-based rehabilitation

PURPOSE: Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy (ETV) and Choroid Plexus Cautery (CPC) are low-cost, safe, and promising interventions for spina bifida-associated hydrocephalus (SBHCP). The purpose of this review was to explore and …

Functional Medicine: How Dysfunction Leads to Disease

Functional medicine is part of integrative medicine. There are three phases in the movement from health to disease. The first phase concerns lifestyle and how poor lifestyle choices move the …

Strong correlation of lumefantrine concentrations in capillary and venous plasma from malaria patients

BackgroundLumefantrine is a long-acting antimalarial drug with an elimination half-life of over 3 days and protein binding of 99 percent. Correlation of lumefantrine concentrations from capillary plasma via fingerprick (Cc) …

Torture and sexual violence in war and conflict: The unmaking and remaking of subjects of violence

Despite the wide repository of knowledge about conflict-related sexual violence that now exists, there remains a lack of understanding about how victims/survivors of such violence themselves make sense of and …

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VIOLATIONS OF SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF THE GLOBAL GAG RULE AND COVID-19: An Institutional Position Paper

The United Statesâ Mexico City policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule (GGR), has had wide ranging implicationsfor access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Uganda. …

The Global Compact on Refugees Three Years On: Navigating barriers and maximising incentives in support of refugees and host countries

Successful antiretroviral therapy delivery and retention in care among asymptomatic individuals with high CD4+T-cell counts above 350 cells/ml in rural Uganda

Background: HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) is being rapidly scaled up in sub-Saharan Africa, including recently patients with CD4+ T-cell counts above 350 cells/μl. However, concerns persist about adherence and virologic …