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INTRODUCTION Infants born to women living with HIV initiating combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) late in pregnancy are at high-risk of intrapartum infection. Mother/infant perinatal antiretroviral intensification may substantially reduce this risk. METHODS In this single arm Bayesian trial, pregnant women with HIV receiving standard of care ARV prophylaxis in Thailand (maternal antenatal lopinavir-based cART; non-breastfed infants 4 weeks postnatal zidovudine) were offered 'antiretroviral intensification' (labor single-dose nevirapine plus infant zidovudine-lamivudine-nevirapine for two-weeks followed by zidovudine-lamivudine for two-weeks) if their antenatal cART was ≤8 weeks before delivery. A negative birth HIV-DNA PCR followed by a confirmed positive PCR defined intrapartum transmission. Prior to study initiation, we modeled intrapartum transmission probabilities using data from 3,738 mother/infant pairs enrolled in our previous trials in Thailand using a logistic model, with perinatal maternal/infant antiretroviral regimen and predicted viral load at delivery as main covariates. Using the characteristics of the women enrolled who received intensification, prior intrapartum transmission probabilities (credibility intervals; CrI) with/without intensification were estimated. After including the observed transmission data in the current study, the corresponding Bayesian posterior transmission probability was derived. RESULTS No intrapartum transmission of HIV was observed among the 88 mother/infant pairs receiving intensification. The estimated intrapartum transmission probability was 2·2% (0·5-6·1) without intensification versus 0·3% (95%CrI 0·0-1·6) with intensification. The probability of superiority of intensification over standard of care was 94·4%. Antiretroviral intensification appeared safe. CONCLUSION Mother/infant antiretroviral intensification was effective in preventing intrapartum transmission of HIV in pregnant women receiving ≤8 weeks antepartum cART.BACKGROUND Repeat sexually transmitted infections in DC primarily results from untreated sexual partners. This analysis aims to identify high-risk areas and temporal trends of repeat STIs for PrEP scale-up and STI mitigation in DC. AZD-5153 6-hydroxy-2-naphthoic chemical structure METHODS We identified repeat infections DC Department of Health STI and HIV data management systems, diagnosed from 2014-2018. The cases were geocoded and aggregated by census tracts. Poisson discrete scan statistic was implemented in SaTScan software to find clusters. Weighted moving average was used to compare temporal trends of repeat STIs. We used chi-square analysis to identify association with demographic variables. RESULTS We identified 8535 repeat STIs from 2014-2018. Of these, 61.84% were among males, a majority of cases were among Blacks (34.75%) and 47.45% represented gonorrhea cases. The high-risk spatial clusters were identified as those tracts which had relative risk (RR>1; p-value less then 0.001). We identified one significant radius of risk covering tracts of wards 7 and 8 as well as parts of wards 5 and 6. We spotted positive temporal trends in cluster 1 as well as outside the cluster. We found significant associations of repeat STIs with gender (χ = 317.27, p less then 0.001), age (χ = 539.26, p less then 0.001), HIV coinfections (χ = 352.06, p less then 0.001) and year of diagnoses (χ = 1.5, p less then 0.01). CONCLUSIONS Our findings indicate spatial disparities in DC for repeat STIs. This analysis is critical for PrEP planning, STI prevention strategies such as expedited partner therapies as well as condom distribution strategies in DC should prioritize the high-risk spatial cores.BACKGROUND Low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is usually observed in people living with HIV (PLWH). The effect of a low-volume high intensity interval training (LV-HIIT) on CRF in HIV+ and HIV- Hispanic women was evaluated in this study. SETTING A non-randomized clinical trial with pre and post-test using a LV-HIIT intervention was conducted in the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU) and the Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium (PRCTRC) at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus. METHODS 29 HIV+ and 13 HIV- Hispanic women recruited from community-based programs and clinics, and able to engage in daily physical activities, volunteered to participate. Of these, 20 HIV+ (69%) and 11 HIV- (85%) completed the study and were included in the analyses. LV-HIIT consisted of 6-weeks, 3 days/week, 8-10 high and low intensity intervals on a cycle-ergometer at 80-90% of heart rate reserve. Main outcome measures were CRF (defined as VO2peak), peak workload, and time to peak exercise. RESULTS Average peak workload and time to peak exercise increased after training (P less then 0.05) in both groups. However, average CRF was significantly higher after training only in the HIV- group. Gains in CRF were observed in 100% of HIV- and 50% of HIV+ women. This was not influenced by exercise testing, habitual physical activity, or anthropometric variables. CONCLUSION Given the lack of change in CRF observed in the HIV+ group post LV-HIIT intervention, it is important to focus on variations that may occur within groups.The excess relative risk (ERR) of mortality for circulatory disease among nuclear workers was reanalyzed by taking into consideration the annual dose as the dose rate using publicly available epidemiological data of the Hanford site dedicated to the cohort study of nuclear workers in the US, the UK, and Canada. Values of the dose rate (cut-points) were chosen at 2 mSv y intervals from 2 to 40 mSv y, and risk estimates were made for 32,988 workers, considering the doses accumulated below and above each cut-point to have different effects. Similarly to that in the previous study for cancer by Sasaki et al., examinations of sensitivity analysis were also carried out for different risk models, lag periods, and impacts of adjusting the monitoring period to find the effect of the dose rate. As a result, emergence of a statistically significant difference between βL1, which is the ERR for the doses accumulated below the specified cut-point, and βH1, which is the ERR for that above the specified cut-point, was observed for cut-point of the dose rate of 4, 6, 34, 36, and 38 mSv y.
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