Browsing by Author "Williams, Leslie D."

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      Identifying, linking, and treating people who inject drugs and were recently infected with HIV in the context of a network-based intervention 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Psichogiou, Mina; Giallouros, George; Pantavou, Katerina; Pavlitina, Eirini; Papadopoulou, Martha; Williams, Leslie D.; Hadjikou, Andria; Kakalou, Eleni; Skoutelis, Athanasios; Protopapas, Konstantinos; Antoniadou, Anastasia; Boulmetis, George; Paraskevis, Dimitrios; Hatzakis, Angelos; Friedman, Samuel R. (2019)
      Identifying and linking people to care soon after HIV infection could limit viral transmission and protect their health. This work aims at describing the continuum of care among recently HIV-infected people who inject drugs ...
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      Near Full-length Genomic Sequencing and Molecular Analysis of HIV-Infected Individuals in a Network-based Intervention (TRIP) in Athens, Greece: Evidence that Transmissions Occur More Frequently from those with High HIV-RNA 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Kostaki, Evangelia-Georgia; Frampton, Daniel; Paraskevis, Dimitrios; Pantavou, Katerina; Ferns, Bridget; Raffle, Jade; Grant, Paul; Kozlakidis, Zisis; Hadjikou, Andria; Pavlitina, Eirini; Williams, Leslie D.; Hatzakis, Angelos; Friedman, Samuel R.; Nastouli, Eleni (2018)
      BACKGROUND: TRIP (Transmission Reduction Intervention Project) was a network-based, contact tracing approach to locate and link to care, mostly people who inject drugs (PWID) with recent HIV infection. OBJECTIVE: We ...
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      A Network Intervention to Locate Newly HIV Infected Persons Within MSM Networks in Chicago 

      Morgan, Ethan; Skaathun, Britt; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Paraskevis, Dimitrios; Williams, Leslie D.; Smyrnov, Pavlo; Friedman, Samuel R.; Schneider, John A. (2019)
      Individuals with recent/acute HIV-infection have an increased likelihood of disease transmission. To evaluate effectiveness of identifying recent infections, we compared networks of recently and long-term HIV-infected ...
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      People with high HIV viral load within risk networks: who are these people and who refers them best? 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Korobchuk, Anna; Davtyan, Hayk; Denisiuk, Olga; Zachariah, Rony; Paraskevis, Dimitrios; Skaathun, Britt; Schneider, John; Vasylyeva, Tetyana I.; Williams, Leslie D.; Smyrnov, Pavlo; Friedman, Samuel R. (2019)
      Introduction: Viral load is one of the most important determinants for HIV transmission. Identification of people with high viral load (PHVL) can be effective in limiting onward HIV transmission. In order to improve the ...
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      Pockets of HIV Non-infection Within Highly-Infected Risk Networks in Athens, Greece 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Williams, Leslie D.; Kostaki, Evangelia-Georgia; Pavlitina, Eirini; Paraskevis, Dimitrios; Hatzakis, Angelos; Schneider, John; Smyrnov, Pavlo; Hadjikou, Andria; Psichogiou, Mina; Friedman, Samuel R. (2018)
      As part of a network study of HIV infection among people who inject drugs (PWID) and their contacts, we discovered a connected subcomponent of 29 uninfected PWID. In the context of a just-declining large epidemic outbreak, ...
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      Risk network approaches to locating undiagnosed HIV cases in Odessa, Ukraine 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Smyrnov, Pavlo; Williams, Leslie D.; Korobchuk, Ania; Sazonova, Yana; Skaathun, Britt; Morgan, Ethan; Schneider, John; Vasylyeva, Tetyana I.; Friedman, Samuel R. (2018)
      Introduction Providing HIV healthcare and Treatment as Prevention both depend on diagnosing HIV cases, preferably soon after initial infection. We hypothesized that tracing risk networks recruits higher proportions of ...
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      Social network approaches to locating people recently infected with HIV in Odessa, Ukraine 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Williams, Leslie D.; Korobchuk, Ania; Smyrnov, Pavlo; Sazonova, Yana; Skaathun, Britt; Morgan, Ethan; Schneider, John; Vasylyeva, Tetyana I.; Duong, Yen T.; Chernyavska, Svitlana; Goncharov, Vitaliy; Kotlik, Ludmila; Friedman, Samuel R. (2019)
      Introduction This paper examines the extent to which an intervention succeeded in locating people who had recently become infected with HIV in the context of the large-scale Ukrainian epidemic. Locating and intervening ...