For monitoring viral load (VL) or Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) of HIV-1, real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) is used to perform on plasma or Dried Blood Spot (DBS) sample. The qPCR method is expensive and requires sophisticated equipment. Therefore, there is a requirement for newer and cheaper technology for VL measurement or EID.
This falls along the themes of financial burden for cancer patients and discusses innovations and strategies for health care providers.
We observe the link between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We use automated methodologies to find insights and overlaps between AI and the SDGs. AI-Ethics frameworks need to give more attention to Society and Environment areas. Inclusive action is needed to balance the efforts for solving SDGs by using AI.SDGs 13, 14, and 15 (all related to the Environment area) are not sufficiently addressed.
The study aims to investigate whether machine learning-based predictive models for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment show equivalent performance across demographic groups (such as race and gender) and if bias mitigation methods can reduce any bias present in the models. This is important as systematic bias may be introduced when collecting and preprocessing health data, which could affect the performance of the models on certain demographic sub-cohorts.
Study built over two decades of research on intimate parther violence and HIV. Sub-Saharan Africa has among the highest prevalence of intimate parthner violence (IPV) and HIV worldwide. The results of this very pooled analysis show that pwomen who had experienced physical or sexual IPV in the past year were 3·22 times as likely to acquire a recent HIV infection and women living with HIV who experienced physical or sexual IPV in the past year were 9% less likely to be virally suppressed
Emerging Practices in Telehealth: Best Practices in a Rapidly Changing Field, 2023, Pages 131-140
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by hihglighting low to high technology options, telehealth platform training for support staff and providers, subsidized and improved budgets for telehealth, and improved reimbursement as vital steps to close the digital divide and improve health-care disparities.
This article looks at changes in stress levels and study habits during the COVID-19 pandemic across students at HBCUs.
This chapter advances Goals 5 and 10 by addressing ways we can support the needs of female hand surgeons.
This content advances goals 4, 5 and 10 by highlighting diversity, equity and inclusion for women in the world of hand surgery.
This review article advances goals 3, 5, and 10 by addressing inequity in care among pregnant women with asthma in underserved communities and examining potential interventions that may help improve health outcomes and standard of care.
