Shortened and Culturally Appropriate HIV Stigma Scale for Asians Living with HIV in the United States: Psychometric Analysis.

Instruments to measure HIV stigma in people living with HIV in the United States or in Asia may not be sensitive enough to capture the stigma experienced by Asians living with HIV (ALWH) in the United States. Our purpose was to adapt the shortened Berger Stigma Scale to be culturally appropriate for ALWH in the United States. We conducted a mixed-method study (i.

Outcome of challenging HIV case consultations provided via teleconference by the Clinician Consultation Center to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Objectives: To describe the collaboration and prospective outcome of challenging human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases presented by Board of Prisons (BOP) pharmacists in consultation with Clinician Consultation Center (CCC) clinical pharmacists and physicians to improve correctional patient care.

Setting: Federal correctional facilities.

Practice Description: Pharmacists improve care of incarcerated persons infected with HIV.

Immunologic benefits of enfuvirtide in patients enrolled in a drug assistance program.

Background: Randomized clinical trials have demonstrated that enfuvirtide plus an optimized background regimen can cause a significant increase in CD4+ cell counts and a reduction in HIV RNA levels.

Objective: To describe and analyze CD4+ cell count and HIV RNA changes in HIV-infected patients receiving enfuvirtide and a prescribed background regimen (PBR) in a primarily clinical setting.

Methods: A retrospective review from September 1998 through August 2005 of CD4+ cell counts and HIV RNA changes from baseline was conducted in patients receiving enfuvirtide.

Liquid chromatographic-tandem mass spectrometric assay for the simultaneous determination of didanosine and stavudine in human plasma, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, alveolar cells, peripheral blood mononuclear cells, seminal plasma, cerebrospinal fluid and tonsil tissue.

We have developed a sensitive, high-pressure liquid chromatographic-tandem mass spectrometric (LC/MS/MS) method for the simultaneous determination of didanosine (ddI) and stavudine (d4T) in human plasma, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), alveolar cells (AC), peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), seminal plasma, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and tonsil tissue. Plasma, AC, PBMC and CSF were run with an isocratic HPLC method, while BALF supernatant, semen, and tonsil tissue utilized a gradient elution. Samples were prepared by solid phase extraction.