Justice Quame-Amaglo

TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study provides a comprehensive assessment of all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1980 to 2015, finding several countries in sub-Saharan Africa had very large gains in life expectancy, rebounding from an era of exceedingly high loss of life due to HIV/AIDS.

TL;DR: Point-of-care viral load testing combined with task shifting significantly improved viral suppression and retention in HIV care and can simplify treatment and improve outcomes for HIV-positive adults receiving ART in resource-limited settings.

TL;DR: Urine TFV concentrations can inform interpretation of novel point-of-care urine-based TFV assays to assess recent TDF adherence and help to monitor adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis or TFV-based antiretroviral therapy.

TL;DR: This study aims to demonstrate whether POC VL testing combined with task shifting to enrolled nurses is non-inferior and cost-effective compared with laboratory-based VL monitoring and standard HIV care.

TL;DR: A randomized, open-label, clinical pharmacokinetic study of tenofovir in healthy adult volunteers without HIV or Hepatitis B infection in Thailand to define the target concentration thresholds of TFV in blood, urine and oral fluid that can distinguish between different levels of TDF adherence.