Publications by authors named "Edmundo Huerta"

Article Synopsis
  • Scholars advocate for the quick provision of free HIV treatment to migrants living with HIV (MLWH) to improve their health outcomes and experiences.
  • In a 96-week study, MLWH received a specific medication and completed eight different surveys assessing factors like social support, stigma, psychological distress, and treatment satisfaction at various intervals.
  • The results showed that while MLWH generally had good treatment self-efficacy and satisfaction, their experiences of social support and stigma varied significantly based on sociodemographic factors, such as birth region and sexual orientation.
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Objective: Multidisciplinary care with free, rapid, and on-site bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (B/F/TAF) dispensation may improve health outcomes among migrants living with HIV. However, models for rapid B/F/TAF initiation are not well studied among migrants living with HIV, and an understanding of how social determinants of health (SDH) may affect HIV-related health outcomes for migrants enrolled in such care models is limited.

Methods: Within a 96-week pilot feasibility prospective cohort study at a multidisciplinary HIV clinic, participants received free B/F/TAF rapidly after care linkage.

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This study aimed to explore the experiences of migrant people living with HIV (MLWH) enrolled in a Montreal-based multidisciplinary HIV care clinic with rapid antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation and cost-covered ART. Between February 2020 and March 2022, 32 interviews were conducted with 16 MLWH at three time-points (16 after 1 week of ART initiation, 8 after 24 weeks, 8 after 48 weeks). Interviews were analyzed via the Framework Method.

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Gene subset selection is essential for classification and analysis of microarray data. However, gene selection is known to be a very difficult task since gene expression data not only have high dimensionalities, but also contain redundant information and noises. To cope with these difficulties, this paper introduces a fuzzy logic based pre-processing approach composed of two main steps.

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