Family support, discrimination, and quality of life among ART-treated HIV-infected patients: a two-year study in China.

Background: By September 2016, approximately 653,865 people in China were living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and 492,725 people were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART). PLWHA frequently experience discrimination in all domains of their personal and social lives. The World Health Organization includes discrimination in its list of social determinants of health factors that have been linked to poor physical and psychological health.

Two-year prospective cohort study on quality of life outcomes among people living with HIV after initiation of antiretroviral therapy in Guangxi, China.

The long-term impact of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on quality of life (QOL) is not well understood in China. From 2007-2008, 332 treatment-naïve, HIV-infected adults from five hospitals in Guangxi were enrolled in a 2-year prospective cohort study. Information was collected at the time of ART initiation and during 6-, 12-, and 24-month follow-up visits.

Evaluation of a needle social marketing strategy to control HIV among injecting drug users in China.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a needle social marketing strategy to reduce needle sharing and hepatitis C Virus (HCV)/HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDU) in China.

Design: Two-armed, prospective, community-randomized prevention trial.

Setting: Four counties/townships in Guangxi and Guangdong provinces; one randomized to intervention the other to control in each province.

[Evaluation of a pilot study on needle and syringe exchange program among injecting drug users in a community in Guangdong, China].

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of needle and syringe exchange program among a community of injecting drug users (IDUs) on AIDS prevention.

Methods: A quasi-experiment design was used in a controlled community intervention study. Needle and syringe exchange program was implemented for 10 months in IDUs of an intervention community, including peer education and health education, provision of free needles and syringes, and collecting back of used needles and syringes by trained peer educators and local health workers, whereas no intervention measure in a control community was instituted.

[Qualitative study of drug-using and sexual behaviors of drug users in Guangxi].

Objective: To understand where and how drug-using and sexual behaviors occurred among drug users.

Methods: Twenty-five drug users were recruited from detoxification centers and communities. In-depth interview was used to collect information about drug-using and sexual behaviors.