Javier R. Lama

TL;DR: The importance of addressing social perceptions in order to optimize the beneficial effects of social support resources among newly diagnosed individuals is suggested.

TL;DR: Preliminary data suggest the need for further longitudinal research and highlight the potential utility of pre-diagnosis psychosocial assessment and tailored counseling when providing positive HIV diagnosis results.

TL;DR: Network size and the number of casual sexual partners were associated with NG/CT infection among MSM in Peru, suggesting network composition among MSM with homosexual-only sexual networks plays an important role in the risk for STI acquisition.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the performance of AEHI diagnostic criteria from a prospective study of early ART initiation and found that these criteria may facilitate AEHI diagnosis, staging, and immediate ART initiation in future research studies and clinical practice.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the whole-blood transcriptome and microbiome prior to immunization, in order to assess their involvement in induction of humoral responses two months later, and found that the levels of neutralizing antibody responses were correlated with abundance of Eubacterium in stool and Prevotella in skin.