HIV Care Preferences among Young People Living with HIV in Lesotho: A Secondary Data Analysis of the PEBRA Cluster Randomized Trial.

Introduction: Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 89% of all young people living with HIV, a key population with specific challenges and needs. In-depth knowledge of service demands is needed to tailor and differentiate service delivery for this group. We evaluated HIV care preferences among young people living with HIV who were part of the PEBRA (Peer Educator Based Refill of ART) cluster-randomized trial.

Effectiveness of a peer educator-coordinated preference-based differentiated service delivery model on viral suppression among young people living with HIV in Lesotho: The PEBRA cluster-randomized trial.

Background: Southern and Eastern Africa is home to more than 2.1 million young people aged 15 to 24 years living with HIV. As compared with other age groups, this population group has poorer outcomes along the HIV care cascade.

[Long-haul intensive care transports by air].

The need for inter-hospital transports over long distances aboard air ambulances or airlines has increased in recent years, both in the civil as well as the military sector. More often severely ill intensive care patients with multiple organ failure and appropriate supportive care (e.g.

Hemodynamics during an ambulance flight.

Transportation of patients may present challenges, especially if they need intensive care, require mechanical ventilation, or are hemodynamically unstable. In the reported case study, Picco-based measurements were used to track hemodynamic changes in a patient throughout the duration of a transfer, which included an air ambulance transport. If air medical transport is indicated, several additional physical and chemical considerations require awareness during the trip, planning, and pretransport patient preparation: first, that decreasing atmospheric pressure leads to reduced blood oxygenation, and second, that intracorporeal volume shifts may occur during takeoff and landing.