François Dabis

• Living in Fear

  Open Access•Noelle A Benzekri, Astou Diagne et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS and Behavior•2026

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  Dedicated studies to understand and explore HIV-related stigma among PWH in Senegal are essential for the development and implementation of effective stigma reduction strategies. The goals of this study were to understand the current challenges confronted by newly diagnosed PWH in Senegal and to explore the manifestations of HIV-related stigma using a mixed methods approach. We conducted a convergent mixed methods study among participants ≥ 18 ye…

• Syndromic and biological screening for sexually transmitted infections in female sex workers in Côte d’Ivoire

  Open Access•Marcellin Nouaman, Marcellin N’zebo Nouaman et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Public Health•2025

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  Background Female sex workers (FSWs) are at high risk of contracting STIs, in particular in Sub-Saharan Africa. The implementation of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis provided an opportunity to draw attention to the sexual health needs of FSWs. Innovative strategies to screen for and reduce the burden of STIs is thus a priority. This study describes STI screening among FSWs enrolled in the PRINCESSE project in Côte d’Ivoire. Methods The PRINCESS…

• In danger

  Open Access•Roger Tatoud, Yves Lévy et al.•ARTICLE•PLOS Global Public Health•2025

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  Highly effective antiretroviral-based HIV prevention plays an important role in ending the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, the sustainable control of the epidemic is hampered by unequal access to prevention options, including HIV testing, alongside with drug resistance and ongoing barriers to accessing sustainable HIV treatment. Therefore, an HIV vaccine, combined with effective prevention and treatment, remains an absolute necessity to contro…

• Perceptions and management of diabetes and obesity among people living with HIV in Côte d’Ivoire

  Open Access•Jean Jacques Koffi, Marie K Plaisy et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2025

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  These results highlight the complexity surrounding the perceptions and management of T2DM and obesity among PLHIV in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. In order to implement innovative and efficient intervention strategies to prevent and treat these metabolic conditions, cultural beliefs as well as socio-economic barriers must be addressed

• Incidence of unintended pregnancies and pregnancy experience among adolescents living with perinatally-acquired HIV in West Africa

  Open Access•Désiré Lucien Dahourou, Clément Tisseron et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2025

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  Registered with the Pan African Clinical Trials Registry on 13 February 2024 (reference no. PACTR202402863175053)

• Perceptions, facilitators and barriers to the implementation of interpersonal group therapy to treat depression among people living with HIV in Senegal

  Open Access•Charlotte Bernard, Idrissa Mané et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Public Health•2024

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  Background: Depression is highly prevalent in people living with HIV (PLWH) but remains under treated in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this context, we conducted the first study of Group Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) to treat depression in PLWH in Senegal. We assessed the perceptions and experiences of patients and group facilitators, as well as barriers to implementation. Methods: This study was conducted at the Fann National University Hospital Center i…

• Population-level viremia predicts HIV incidence at the community level across the Universal Testing and Treatment Trials in eastern and southern Africa

  Open Access•Joseph Larmarange, Pamela Bachanas et al.•ARTICLE•PLOS Global Public Health•2023

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  Universal HIV testing and treatment (UTT) strategies aim to optimize population-level benefits of antiretroviral treatment. Between 2012 and 2018, four large community randomized trials were conducted in eastern and southern Africa. While their results were broadly consistent showing decreased population-level viremia reduces HIV incidence, it remains unclear how much HIV incidence can be reduced by increasing suppression among people living with…

• Management of depression in people living with HIV/Aids in Senegal

  Open Access•Charlotte Bernard, Hélène Font et al.•ARTICLE•Cambridge Prisms Global Mental…•2023

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  Depression is highly prevalent in people living with HIV (PLWH) and has negative consequences for daily life and care. We evaluated for the first time the acceptability, feasibility and benefits of group interpersonal therapy (IPT), combined with a task-shifting approach, to treat depression in PLWH in Senegal. PLWH with depression received group IPT following the World Health Organization protocol. Acceptability and feasibility criteria were def…

• Prévention combinée du VIH

  François Dabis•ARTICLE•Sciences sociales et santé•2023

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• Costs and economies of scale in repeated home-based HIV counselling and testing

  Open Access•Marwân-Al-Qays Bousmah, Collins Iwuji et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2022•Referencias: 29

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  Universal HIV testing is now recommended in generalised HIV epidemic settings. Although home-based HIV counselling and testing (HB-HCT) has been shown to be effective in achieving high levels of HIV status awareness, little is still known about the cost implications of universal and repeated HB-HCT. We estimated the costs of repeated HB-HCT and the scale economies that can be obtained when increasing the population coverage of the intervention. W…

• L’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) à l’ère de la pandémie de Covid-19

  François Dabis•ARTICLE•Hérodote•2021

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  L’OMS est un des piliers du système des Nations unies. Mais elle n’a pas réussi à coordonner la réponse internationale à la pandémie de Covid-19, ce qui peut s’expliquer de trois manières. D’abord, un rappel historique donne à penser que l’OMS était déjà en situation de fragilité marquée lorsque le Covid-19 a émergé. Ensuite, une chronologie des événements survenus depuis la fin 2019 permet de conclure à des retards dans le mécanisme d’alerte mai…

• Barriers influencing task-shifting for the management of depression in people living with HIV

  Charlotte Bernard, Moussa Seydi et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2021

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  Depression is highly prevalent in people living with HIV (PLHIV) worldwide. As mental health specialists are scarce in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the World Health Organization (WHO) encourages task-shifting. We aimed to evaluate the barriers that could compromise task-shifting in front-line health care workers (HCWs) who provide HIV integrated care in West Africa. We collected knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) information on symptoms, cause…

• Effects of Age, Level of Education and HIV Status on Cognitive Performance in West African Older Adults

  Open Access•Charlotte Bernard, Hélène Font et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS and Behavior•2021

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• Measuring retention in care for HIV-positive pregnant women in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) option B+ programs

  Open Access•Laurence Ahoua, Shino Arikawa et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2020

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  More stringent definitions indicated lower retention rates for PMTCT programs. Policy makers and program managers should include attendance at follow-up visits when measuring retention in care to better guide planning, scale-up, and monitoring of interventions

• Early ART Initiation Improves HIV Status Disclosure and Social Support in People Living with HIV, Linked to Care Within a Universal Test and Treat Program in Rural South Africa (ANRS 12249 TasP Trial)

  Open Access•Marion Fiorentino, Marie Libérée Nishimwe et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS and Behavior•2020

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• Prevalence and factors associated with depression in people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

  Open Access•Charlotte Bernard, François Dabis et al.•ARTICLE•PLoS ONE•2017

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• Couples HIV counselling and couple relationships in India, Georgia and the Dominican Republic

  Open Access•Thierry Tiendrebeogo, Mélanie Plazy et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2017

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  ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01494961 . Registered December 15, 2011. (Retrospectively registered)

• High prevalence of dental caries among HIV‐infected children in W est A frica compared to uninfected siblings

  Open Access•Noëlla Rajonson, David Meless et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Public Health Dentistry•2017

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  Although preventable, the burden of dental disease was high in children from families affected by HIV in West Africa and was associated with HIV infection and immunosuppression

• Factors associated with antiretroviral treatment initiation amongst HIV-positive individuals linked to care within a universal test and treat programme

  Open Access•Simon Boyer, Collins Iwuji et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2016

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  Prompt uptake of antiretroviral treatment (ART) is essential to ensure the success of universal test and treat (UTT) strategies to prevent HIV transmission in high-prevalence settings. We describe ART initiation rates and associated factors within an ongoing UTT cluster-randomized trial in rural South Africa. HIV-positive individuals were offered immediate ART in the intervention arm vs. national guidelines recommended initiation (CD4≤350 cells/m…

• Intimate partner sexual and physical violence among women in Togo, West Africa

  Open Access•Juan Burgos-Soto, Joanna Orne-Gliemann et al.•ARTICLE•Global Health Action•2014

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  BACKGROUND: A substantial proportion of newly diagnosed HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa occur within serodiscordant cohabiting heterosexual couples. Intimate partner violence is a major concern for couple-oriented HIV preventive approaches. This study aimed at estimating the prevalence and associated factors of intimate partner physical and sexual violence among HIV-infected and -uninfected women in Togo. We also described the severity and c…

• Cervical cancer screening by visual inspection in Côte d'Ivoire, operational and clinical aspects according to HIV status

  Open Access•Apollinaire Horo, Antoine Jaquet et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2012

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  The higher frequency of positive visual inspection among HIV-positive women supports the need to extend cervical cancer screening program to all HIV clinics in West Africa. Women loss to follow-up after being positively screened is a major concern in cervical screening programs but yet, partly amenable to a phone tracking procedure

• Month Mortality and Loss-to-Program in Antiretroviral-Treated Children

  Open Access•Didier Koumavi Ekouévi, Alain Azondékon et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2011

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  Innovative and sustainable approaches are needed to better document causes of death and increase retention in HIV pediatric clinics in West Africa

• Information That Should Be Given to HIV Cohort Participants during Ongoing Research

  Open Access•Sandra Franrenet, Grégoire Moutel et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Empirical Research on…•2011•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 1

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  While investigators have a duty to provide research participants with summary findings at the end of a study, providing general information during the course of research is rarely considered. However, this raises an important ethical issue in the context of long-term studies such as cohorts or biobanks. We investigated this issue in the context of two ANRS cohorts of HIV-infected patients, AQUITAINE and COPILOTE. Face-to-face interviews were cond…

• Prioritising prevention strategies for patients in antiretroviral treatment programmes in resource-limited settings

  Anne Spaar, Claire Graber et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2010

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  Expanded access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) offers opportunities to strengthen HIV prevention in resource-limited settings. We invited 27 ART programmes from urban settings in Africa, Asia and South America to participate in a survey, with the aim to examine what preventive services had been integrated in ART programmes. Twenty-two programmes participated; eight (36%) from South Africa, two from Brazil, two from Zambia and one each from Argen…

• Couple-oriented prenatal HIV counseling for HIV primary prevention

  Open Access•Joanna Orne-Gliemann, Patrice Tchendjou et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2010

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  One of the keys to men's involvement within prenatal HIV counseling and testing is the better understanding of couple relationships, attitudes and communication patterns between men and women, in terms of HIV and sexual and reproductive health; this conjugal context should be taken into account in the provision of quality prenatal HIV counseling, which aims at integrated PMTCT and primary prevention of HIV

• Information That Should Be Given to HIV Cohort Participants during Ongoing Research

  Open Access•Sandra Franrenet, Grégoire Moutel et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Empirical Research on…•2011•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 1

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  While investigators have a duty to provide research participants with summary findings at the end of a study, providing general information during the course of research is rarely considered. However, this raises an important ethical issue in the context of long-term studies such as cohorts or biobanks. We investigated this issue in the context of two ANRS cohorts of HIV-infected patients, AQUITAINE and COPILOTE. Face-to-face interviews were cond…

• Quality of death certificates

  L R Salmi, Liz Salmi et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•1990•Referencias: 3

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  Quality of death certificates: studying or burying? L R Salmi, F Dabis, C Rogier, and T McKinleyCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.80.6.751 Published Online: October 07, 2011

• A Cohort Study of Factors Associated with Failure to Return for HIV Post- test Counselling in Pregnant Women

  Joel Ladner, Valériane Leroy et al.•ARTICLE•Studies in Family Planning•1996

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• Prognosis of HIV-1-infected patients starting highly active antiretroviral therapy

  Open Access•Matthias Egger, Margaret May et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2002

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• HIV prevention in Latin America

  Federico Pérez, François Dabis•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2003

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  The aim of this paper is to describe and evaluate a school-based peer education programme on HIV primary prevention implemented in urban marginal districts of three cities of Colombia from 1997 to 1999. Its main objective was to promote risk awareness and safe sexual behaviours among urban youth populations. Methodology included the collection of baseline information through qualitative methods (focus groups and in-depth interviews), a knowledge,…

• Mortality of infected and uninfected infants born to HIV-infected mothers in Africa

  Open Access•Marie-Louise Newell, Hoosen Coovadia et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2004

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• Community-based assessment of infant feeding practices within a programme for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in rural Zimbabwe

  Open Access•Joanna Orne-Gliemann, Tarisai Mukotekwa et al.•ARTICLE•Public Health Nutrition•2006

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  Objective To describe the infant feeding practices and attitudes of women who used prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services in rural Zimbabwe. Design A cross-sectional study including structured interviews and focus group discussions was conducted between June 2003 and February 2004. Setting The study took place in Murambinda Mission Hospital (Buhera District, Manicaland Province), the first site offering PMTCT services …

• Beneficial Effects of Offering Prenatal HIV Counselling and Testing on Developing a HIV Preventive Attitude among Couples. Abidjan, 2002–2005

  Open Access•Annabel Desgrées Du Loû, Annabel Desgrées-Du-Loû et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS and Behavior•2007

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• An assessment of the understanding of the offer of routine HIV testing among pregnant women in rural Zimbabwe

  Linnetie Mugore, Barbara Engelsmann et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2008

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  The objective of this study is to assess the understanding of routine offer of HIV testing among women using antenatal care (ANC) services in a rural African district. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted in Murewa district, Zimbabwe, among women consecutively enrolled during their first ANC visit in 10 health centres offering prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV services including routine offer of HIV testing. …

• Month occurrence of severe events among early diagnosed HIV-infected children before antiretroviral therapy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

  Open Access•Jérôme Harambat, Patricia Fassinou et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2008

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  Early cotrimoxazole from 6 weeks of age in HIV-infected infants seemed to reduce probability of severe events but the study lacked statistical power to prove this. Even with systematic cotrimoxazole prophylaxis, infant morbidity and mortality remained high pointing towards a need for early pediatric HIV-diagnosis and antiretroviral treatment in Africa

• Participation of traditional birth attendants in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services in two rural districts in Zimbabwe

  Open Access•Federico Pérez, Freddy Pérez et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2008

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  Although the long-term goal of ANC service delivery in Zimbabwe remains the provision of skilled delivery attendance, PMTCT programmes will benefit from complementary approaches to prevent missed opportunities. TBAs are willing to expand their scope of work regarding activities related to PMTCT. There is a need to reinforce their knowledge on MTCT prevention measures and better integrate them into the health system

• Prioritising prevention strategies for patients in antiretroviral treatment programmes in resource-limited settings

  Anne Spaar, Claire Graber et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2010

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  Expanded access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) offers opportunities to strengthen HIV prevention in resource-limited settings. We invited 27 ART programmes from urban settings in Africa, Asia and South America to participate in a survey, with the aim to examine what preventive services had been integrated in ART programmes. Twenty-two programmes participated; eight (36%) from South Africa, two from Brazil, two from Zambia and one each from Argen…

• Couple-oriented prenatal HIV counseling for HIV primary prevention

  Open Access•Joanna Orne-Gliemann, Patrice Tchendjou et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2010

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  One of the keys to men's involvement within prenatal HIV counseling and testing is the better understanding of couple relationships, attitudes and communication patterns between men and women, in terms of HIV and sexual and reproductive health; this conjugal context should be taken into account in the provision of quality prenatal HIV counseling, which aims at integrated PMTCT and primary prevention of HIV

• To what extent could performance-based schemes help increase the effectiveness of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programs in resource-limited settings? a summary of the publ…

  Open Access•Hapsatou Touré, Martine Audibert et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2010

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  These studies suggest that comprehensive PMTCT strategies aiming to maximize health-worker motivation in developing countries must involve a mix of both financial and non-financial incentives. The establishment of robust ethical and regulatory standards in public-sector HIV care centers could reduce barriers to PMTCT service provision in sub-Saharan Africa and help them in achieving universal PMTCT targets

• Month Mortality and Loss-to-Program in Antiretroviral-Treated Children

  Open Access•Didier Koumavi Ekouévi, Alain Azondékon et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2011

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  Innovative and sustainable approaches are needed to better document causes of death and increase retention in HIV pediatric clinics in West Africa

• Information That Should Be Given to HIV Cohort Participants during Ongoing Research

  Open Access•Sandra Franrenet, Grégoire Moutel et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Empirical Research on…•2011•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 1

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  While investigators have a duty to provide research participants with summary findings at the end of a study, providing general information during the course of research is rarely considered. However, this raises an important ethical issue in the context of long-term studies such as cohorts or biobanks. We investigated this issue in the context of two ANRS cohorts of HIV-infected patients, AQUITAINE and COPILOTE. Face-to-face interviews were cond…

• Cervical cancer screening by visual inspection in Côte d'Ivoire, operational and clinical aspects according to HIV status

  Open Access•Apollinaire Horo, Antoine Jaquet et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2012

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  The higher frequency of positive visual inspection among HIV-positive women supports the need to extend cervical cancer screening program to all HIV clinics in West Africa. Women loss to follow-up after being positively screened is a major concern in cervical screening programs but yet, partly amenable to a phone tracking procedure

• Intimate partner sexual and physical violence among women in Togo, West Africa

  Open Access•Juan Burgos-Soto, Joanna Orne-Gliemann et al.•ARTICLE•Global Health Action•2014

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  BACKGROUND: A substantial proportion of newly diagnosed HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa occur within serodiscordant cohabiting heterosexual couples. Intimate partner violence is a major concern for couple-oriented HIV preventive approaches. This study aimed at estimating the prevalence and associated factors of intimate partner physical and sexual violence among HIV-infected and -uninfected women in Togo. We also described the severity and c…

• Factors associated with antiretroviral treatment initiation amongst HIV-positive individuals linked to care within a universal test and treat programme

  Open Access•Simon Boyer, Collins Iwuji et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2016

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  Prompt uptake of antiretroviral treatment (ART) is essential to ensure the success of universal test and treat (UTT) strategies to prevent HIV transmission in high-prevalence settings. We describe ART initiation rates and associated factors within an ongoing UTT cluster-randomized trial in rural South Africa. HIV-positive individuals were offered immediate ART in the intervention arm vs. national guidelines recommended initiation (CD4≤350 cells/m…

• Prevalence and factors associated with depression in people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

  Open Access•Charlotte Bernard, François Dabis et al.•ARTICLE•PLoS ONE•2017

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• Couples HIV counselling and couple relationships in India, Georgia and the Dominican Republic

  Open Access•Thierry Tiendrebeogo, Mélanie Plazy et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2017

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  ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01494961 . Registered December 15, 2011. (Retrospectively registered)

• High prevalence of dental caries among HIV‐infected children in W est A frica compared to uninfected siblings

  Open Access•Noëlla Rajonson, David Meless et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Public Health Dentistry•2017

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  Although preventable, the burden of dental disease was high in children from families affected by HIV in West Africa and was associated with HIV infection and immunosuppression

• Measuring retention in care for HIV-positive pregnant women in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) option B+ programs

  Open Access•Laurence Ahoua, Shino Arikawa et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2020

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  More stringent definitions indicated lower retention rates for PMTCT programs. Policy makers and program managers should include attendance at follow-up visits when measuring retention in care to better guide planning, scale-up, and monitoring of interventions

• Early ART Initiation Improves HIV Status Disclosure and Social Support in People Living with HIV, Linked to Care Within a Universal Test and Treat Program in Rural South Africa (ANRS 12249 TasP Trial)

  Open Access•Marion Fiorentino, Marie Libérée Nishimwe et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS and Behavior•2020

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• L’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) à l’ère de la pandémie de Covid-19

  François Dabis•ARTICLE•Hérodote•2021

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  L’OMS est un des piliers du système des Nations unies. Mais elle n’a pas réussi à coordonner la réponse internationale à la pandémie de Covid-19, ce qui peut s’expliquer de trois manières. D’abord, un rappel historique donne à penser que l’OMS était déjà en situation de fragilité marquée lorsque le Covid-19 a émergé. Ensuite, une chronologie des événements survenus depuis la fin 2019 permet de conclure à des retards dans le mécanisme d’alerte mai…

• Barriers influencing task-shifting for the management of depression in people living with HIV

  Charlotte Bernard, Moussa Seydi et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2021

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  Depression is highly prevalent in people living with HIV (PLHIV) worldwide. As mental health specialists are scarce in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the World Health Organization (WHO) encourages task-shifting. We aimed to evaluate the barriers that could compromise task-shifting in front-line health care workers (HCWs) who provide HIV integrated care in West Africa. We collected knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) information on symptoms, cause…

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