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Social Network Strategy improves access to HIV testing and harm reduction programs for PWID and their partners in Kazakhstan.

J Infect Dev Ctries

March 2023

International Charitable Foundation Alliance for Public Health (Formerly ICF International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine), Kyiv, Ukraine.

Introduction: The region of Eastern Europe and Сentral Asia has a growing HIV epidemic. Kazakhstan is a country in Central Asia with an estimated 33,000 people living with HIV. The new HIV infections have increased by 29% since 2010.

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HIV-1 epidemic in Russia is one of the fastest growing in the world reaching 1.14 million people living with HIV-1 (PLWH) in 2021. Since mid-1990s, the HIV-1 epidemic in Russia has started to grow substantially due to the multiple HIV-1 outbreaks among persons who inject drugs (PWID) leading to expansion of the HIV-1 sub-subtype A6 (former Soviet Union (FSU) subtype A).

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Article Synopsis
  • Limited hepatitis C virus (HCV) sequence data from Russian patients hampers understanding of how subtypes and resistance-associated substitutions (RAS) affect treatment outcomes.
  • Deep sequencing was conducted on HCV samples from 412 patients in Russia to analyze RAS and compare HCV strains with those found in other regions like Asia, Europe, and North America.
  • Results indicated that certain HCV genotypes, particularly GT1b and GT3a, have similar RAS profiles to those found in Europe and Asia, suggesting that understanding these relationships could improve treatment strategies in Russia.
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Introduction: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is an effective preventive strategy against tuberculosis (TB) in people living with HIV (PLWH). In Kazakhstan, according to the revised HIV treatment guideline (2017), ART should be initiated immediately after HIV diagnosis established, regardless of CD4+ count.

Aim: To evaluate the impact of early initiation of ART on TB infection in PLWH registered in the Center of Prevention and Control of AIDS, Almaty, Kazakhstan, between 2008 and 2018.

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Introduction: HIV/TB comorbidity is responsible for 1.6 million deaths worldwide. HIV/TB control and patients' survival are still among priorities of the national HIV and TB programs.

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