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| Ka Hing WongSummaryAffiliation: Integrated Treatment Centre Country: Hong Kong Publications
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Temporal trend and factors associated with late HIV diagnosis in Hong Kong, a low HIV prevalence localityKa-Hing Wong
Special Preventive Programme, Department of Health, Hong Kong
AIDS Patient Care STDS 17:461-9. 2003..The persistent trend of late HIV diagnosis in Hong Kong deserves attention. Strategies targeting infected people to enhance early HIV testing are needed, especially for those with risk factors of late diagnosis...- Delayed progression to death and to AIDS in a Hong Kong cohort of patients with advanced HIV type 1 disease during the era of highly active antiretroviral therapyKa Hing Wong
Integrated Treatment Centre, Special Preventive Programme, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health, Hong Kong
Clin Infect Dis 39:853-60. 2004..We studied disease progression among adult patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in the pre-HAART (i.e., 1996 and earlier) and HAART eras in Hong Kong... - Adherence to methadone is associated with a lower level of HIV-related risk behaviors in drug usersKa Hing Wong
Special Preventive Programme, Department of Health 5 F, Yaumatei Jockey Club Clinic, 145 Battery Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong
J Subst Abuse Treat 24:233-9. 2003..The findings called for further studies on harm reduction programs for HIV prevention among drug users in Asian countries... - Epstein-Barr virus-associated smooth muscle tumor in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndromeKa Hing Wong
Integrated Treatment Centre, Special Preventive Programme, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health, Kowloon, Hong Kong
J Microbiol Immunol Infect 40:173-7. 2007..This report describes the case of 2 AIDS patients with EBV-associated SMT and highlights the features and outcome of this rare but potentially important tumor in human immunodeficiency virus management... - Epidemiology of hepatitis A and hepatitis E infection and their determinants in adult Chinese community in Hong KongK H Wong
Special Preventive Programme, Department of Health, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong
J Med Virol 72:538-44. 2004..001). The increasing proportion of susceptible population to enterically transmitted viral hepatitis has implications to future prevention and control programmes, including vaccination strategies... - Establishing CD4 thresholds for highly active antiretroviral therapy initiation in a cohort of HIV-infected adult Chinese in Hong KongKa Hing Wong
Integrated Treatment Centre, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
AIDS Patient Care STDS 21:106-15. 2007..Further studies are indicated to validate and discern implications of these preliminary findings of a lower CD4 threshold for antiretroviral therapy in a small Chinese HIV cohort... - The use of total lymphocyte count (TLC) as an independent criterion for initiating HAART in resource-poor countriesShui Shan Lee
Department of Health, Special Preventive Programme Office, 5 F Yaumatei Jockey Club Clinic, 145 Battery Street, Yaumatei, Kowloon, Hong Kong
J Infect 50:66-7. 2005..A value of 1.2 x 10(9)l(-1) could be used as an independent criterion for starting antiretroviral treatment, since it is highly predictive of a low CD4 count warranting intervention... - Highly active antiretroviral therapy per se decreased mortality and morbidity of advanced human immunodeficiency virus disease in Hong KongChi Wai Chan
Integrated Treatment Centre, Department of Health, Hong Kong, China
Chin Med J (Engl) 118:1338-45. 2005..It is unclear if this has also happened in Hong Kong... - A urine-based approach to scale up HIV testing in drug usersShui-Shan Lee
AIDS 20:1349-51. 2006 - Polymorphisms of CCR5 gene in a southern Chinese population and their effects on disease progression in HIV infectionsBo-jian Zheng
HIV Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
AIDS 16:2480-2. 2002 - A novel CCR5 mutation selectively affects immunoreactivity and fusogenic property of the HIV co-receptorXiu Ying Zhao
HIV Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
AIDS 18:1729-32. 2004..The mutation has also abrogated HIV co-receptor activity. Clinically, the HIV disease had progressed slowly... - Popular use of traditional Chinese medicine in HIV patients in the HAART eraKurtland Ma
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
AIDS Behav 12:637-42. 2008..TCM did not seem to have significant influence on the conventional HAART in this cohort. Many used TCM at a time interval from HAART in order not to affect the latter's effectiveness... - Functional analysis of naturally occurring mutations in the open reading frame of CCR5 in HIV-infected Chinese patients and healthy controlsXiu Ying Zhao
HIV Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 38:509-17. 2005..Similar to 299(FS), the mutant G106R located in the third transmembrane domain results in diminished HIV coreceptor function in vitro through conformation changes in ECL2...