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ArticleCurrent HIV/AIDS reports2013

The global HIV epidemic: current status and challenges.

Quarraisha Abdool Karim

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Article in Current HIV/AIDS reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Maintenance Dialysis throughout the World in Years 1990 and 2010.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Quarraisha Abdool KarimCentre for the AIDS Programme of Research, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. Abdoolq2@ukzn.ac.za

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three decades after the first reported cases of AIDS we have within our reach sufficient evidence to substantially alter the HIV epidemic at a country level regardless of mode of transmission of HIV. There are a growing number of countries demonstrating control of the epidemic. Human rights violations and/or legislation relating to sexual orientation, status of minors, injecting drug use and sex work together with stigma and discrimination remain key barriers to knowledge of HIV status and access to appropriate services. The use of anti-retrovirals prophylactically to reduce sexual and vertical transmission and systemically to treat infected infants and adults is central to the optimism in responses to the epidemic. In the current fiscal climate careful thought needs to be given to how to efficiently optimise combinations of what is available to have the biggest impact in the context of limited human and infrastructure resources.

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Global HealthAnti-HIV AgentsCommunicable Disease ControlDeveloping CountriesEpidemicsFemaleHIV InfectionsHuman Rights AbusesHumansInfectious Disease Transmission, VerticalMaleMaternal-Child Health CentersPregnancySexual BehaviorSex WorkersSocial StigmaAnti-HIV Agents

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