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Nancy Padian
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 301
Citations - 17974
Nancy Padian is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The author has an hindex of 66, co-authored 299 publications receiving 17113 citations. Previous affiliations of Nancy Padian include San Francisco General Hospital & Johns Hopkins University.
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Children's symptom and social functioning self-report scales. Comparison of mothers' and children's reports.
TL;DR: The relationship between children's responses about themselves and mothers' responses about their children, on symptom and social functioning scales was examined, and agreement was good across the scales used when the information was derived from the same informant.
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Young people's sexual health in South Africa: HIV prevalence and sexual behaviors from a nationally representative household survey
Audrey Pettifor,Helen Rees,Immo Kleinschmidt,Annie E. Steffenson,Catherine MacPhail,Lindiwe Hlongwa-Madikizela,Kerry Vermaak,Nancy Padian +7 more
TL;DR: The high HIV prevalence among young people in South Africa and, in particular, young women's disproportionate risk is confirmed, indicating programs for youth must continue to promote partner reduction, consistent condom use and prompt treatment for sexually transmitted infections while also addressing contextual factors that make it difficult for them to implement behavior change.
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Relative resistance to HIV-1 infection of CD4 lymphocytes from persons who remain uninfected despite multiple high-risk sexual exposure.
William A. Paxton,Scott R. Martin,Doris B. Tse,Thomas R. O'Brien,Joan Skurnick,Nancy VanDevanter,Nancy Padian,James F. Braun,Donald P. Kotler,Steven M. Wolinsky,Richard A. Koup +10 more
TL;DR: A cohort of 25 subjects with histories of multiple high–risk sexual exposures to HIV–1 found that their CD8+ lymphocytes had greater anti–HIV–1 activity than did CD8+, and their purified CD4+; lymphocytes were less susceptible to infection with multiple primary isolates of HIV-1 than were CD4+.
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Towards an improved investment approach for an effective response to HIV/AIDS
Bernhard Schwartländer,John Stover,Timothy B. Hallett,Rifat Atun,Rifat Atun,Carlos Avila,Eleanor Gouws,Michael Bartos,Peter D. Ghys,Marjorie Opuni,David A Barr,Ramzi Alsallaq,Lori Bollinger,Marcelo de Freitas,Geoffrey P. Garnett,Charles B. Holmes,Ken E. Legins,Yogan Pillay,Anderson Stanciole,Craig McClure,Gottfried Hirnschall,Marie Laga,Nancy Padian +22 more
TL;DR: A strategic investment framework is proposed that is intended to support better management of national and international HIV/AIDS responses than exists with the present system and would avert 12·2 million new HIV infections and 7·4 million deaths from AIDS between 2011 and 2020.
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Sexual practices and risk of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus. The San Francisco Men's Health Study.
Warren Winkelstein,David Lyman,Nancy Padian,Robert M. Grant,Michael Samuel,James Wiley,Robert E. Anderson,William Lang,John Riggs,Jay A. Levy +9 more
TL;DR: Only receptive anal/genital contact had a significantly elevated risk of HIV infection and Douching was the only ancillary sexual practice that contributed significantly to risk of infection.