Impact of HIV/HCV Co-Infection on Mortality and Attrition in Antiretroviral Therapy Among People with HIV - Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 2003-2022.

What Is Already Known About This Topic?: The effects of concurrent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection on mortality and patient attrition in those undergoing antiretroviral therapy continue to be a contested area of research.

What Is Added By This Report?: According to the propensity score-matched cohort, individuals with HIV/HCV co-infection exhibit an elevated risk of all-cause mortality [adjusted hazard ratio: 2.048, 95% confidence interval (): 1.

Characteristics of Migration Among HIV-Positive MSM - Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 2005-2021.

What Is Already Known About This Topic?: Migration has a significant impact on the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). To date, there have been few studies examining the characteristics of migration among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM).

What Is Added By This Report?: The prevalence of migrants among newly reported HIV-positive MSM in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region increased from 2005 to 2021.

Effects of high CD4 cell counts on death and attrition among HIV patients receiving antiretroviral treatment: an observational cohort study.

Current WHO guidelines recommend initiating ART regardless of CD4+ cell count. In response, we conducted an observational cohort study to assess the effects of pre-ART CD4+ cell count levels on death, attrition, and death or attrition in HIV treated patients. This large HIV treatment cohort study (n = 49,155) from 2010 to 2015 was conducted in Guangxi, China.

Risk factors for measles in children younger than age 8 months: A case-control study during an outbreak in Guangxi, China, 2013.

Background: Following a period (2009-2012) during which zero measles cases were reported, a measles outbreak occurred in 2013 in Bama County, Guangxi, China, that involved more than 100 children younger than age 8 months. We aimed to identify the pitfalls and risk factors while implementing the control measures.

Methods: An outbreak investigation and a case-control study was conducted among children younger than age 8 months.

[Analysis on the prevalence of malnutrition and affected factors of rural poor infants under 2 years old in Guangxi Province in 2008].

Objective: To analyze the prevalence of malnutrition and its affected factors of poor rural infants under 2 years old in Guangxi Province. METHODS; Applying a three stages stratified cluster sampling method, a total of 653 subjects were sampled from 4 rural poor counties. The Z score standards recommended by NCHS/WHO were used to evaluate the nutrition and health condition of infants.