August 2010

Opinion of surgical eye patients on preoperative routine HIV screening in a resource-limited economy

Despite inherent benefits, routine (HIV) test is still controversial. A cross-sectional survey of 198 preoperative eye patients was carried out at a Nigerian hospital to determine their opinion on preoperative routine HIV screening. Participants comprised 121 (61%) males and 77 (39%) females, mean age 56 years SD 17. Most (77%) had at least primary education. Awareness of HIV/AIDS was high (96%) and radio was the...

Author(s): Abdulkabir Ayansiji Ayanniyi, Rashidat Oluwafunke Ayanniyi, Sunday Adeyemi Adefisan, Mohammed Jimoh Saka and Mohammed Danfulani  

August 2010

A randomized pilot study of triple Nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors therapy with tenofovir, zidovudine (AZT) plus emtricitabine in antiretroviral naive HIV-1 infected patients – The TEAZE study

A randomized pilot-study to evaluate the virologic efficacy of Tenofovir-DF (TDF) 300 mg/Emtricitabine (FTC) 200 mg once daily plus Zidovudine (AZT) 250 mg twice daily (armA) or 300 mg BID (armB) in naïve HIV-1 infected patients. Twenty patients with a median CD4 cell count of 288 cells/µl (standard deviation (SD): ± 109) and a median viral load of 66.400 HIV RNA copies/ml (SD: ±...

Author(s): Markus Bickel, Christoph Stephan, Tessa Lennemann, Pavel Khaykin, Gabi Nisius, Hans Reinhard Brodt, Schlomo Staszewski and Annette Haberl