Background: To inform vaccination policy and programmatic strategies to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake, an understanding of the factors associated with the willingness to vaccinate is needed.
Methods: We analyzed data collected from the sixth and tenth round of the Nigerian COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics and the World Bank in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Exploratory data analysis and feature selection techniques were used to identify important variables.
J Assoc Med Microbiol Infect Dis Can
June 2021
Background: The clinical and demographic characteristics that predict antiretroviral efficacy among patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis B virus (HBV) remain poorly defined. We evaluated HIV virological suppression and rebound in a cohort of HIV-HBV co-infected patients initiated on antiretroviral therapy.
Methods: A retrospective cohort analysis was performed with Canadian Observation Cohort Collaboration data.
Background: Hepatitis B (HBV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) share common risk factors for exposure. Co-infected patients have an increased liver-related mortality risk and may have accelerated HIV progression. The epidemiology and demographic characteristics of HIV-HBV co-infection in Canada remain poorly defined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To assess the impact of physicians' patient base composition on all-cause mortality among people living with HIV (PLHIV) who initiated highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in British Columbia (BC), Canada.
Design: Observational cohort study from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2013.
Setting: BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS' (BC-CfE) Drug Treatment Program, where HAART is available at no cost.