Effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected children in sub-Saharan AfricaCatherine G Sutcliffe
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Lancet Infect Dis 8:477-89. 2008
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- Relationship of liver disease stage and antiviral therapy with liver-related events and death in adults coinfected with HIV/HCV
Berkeley N Limketkai
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
JAMA 308:370-8. 2012
..Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) accelerates hepatitis C virus (HCV) disease progression; however, the effect of liver disease stage and antiviral therapy on the risk of clinical outcomes is incompletely understood...
Incidence and risk factors for steatosis progression in adults coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C virusTinsay A Woreta
The Johns Hopkins Hospital University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Gastroenterology 140:809-17. 2011
..We prospectively examined the natural history of steatosis in patients coinfected with HIV and HCV who attended an urban HIV clinic...
- Reduced risk of malaria parasitemia following household screening and treatment: a cross-sectional and longitudinal cohort study
Catherine G Sutcliffe
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e31396. 2012
..We sought to determine whether household screening and treatment of infected individuals provides protection against infection for household members...
- Risk factors for pre-treatment mortality among HIV-infected children in rural Zambia: a cohort study
Catherine G Sutcliffe
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
PLoS ONE 6:e29294. 2011
..This study was undertaken to determine mortality rates and clinical predictors of mortality during the period prior to ART initiation...
- Secular trends in pediatric antiretroviral treatment programs in rural and urban Zambia: a retrospective cohort study
Catherine G Sutcliffe
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
BMC Pediatr 10:54. 2010
..We evaluated secular trends in the characteristics and treatment outcomes of children in three pediatric ART clinics in urban and rural areas in Zambia...
- Weight and height z-scores improve after initiating ART among HIV-infected children in rural Zambia: a cohort study
Catherine G Sutcliffe
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
BMC Infect Dis 11:54. 2011
..This study was undertaken to evaluate growth patterns after ART initiation in a young pediatric population in rural Zambia with a high prevalence of undernutrition...
- Do children infected with HIV receiving HAART need to be revaccinated?
Catherine G Sutcliffe
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, USA
Lancet Infect Dis 10:630-42. 2010
..Vaccination policies and strategies for children infected with HIV on HAART should be developed in regions of high HIV prevalence to ensure adequate individual and population immunity...
- Differences in presentation, treatment initiation, and response among children infected with human immunodeficiency virus in urban and rural Zambia
Catherine G Sutcliffe
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 29:849-54. 2010
..Few rural ART programs have been evaluated to determine whether these challenges affect care and treatment response...
- Changing individual-level risk factors for malaria with declining transmission in southern Zambia: a cross-sectional study
Catherine G Sutcliffe
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, USA
Malar J 10:324. 2011
..Changes in individual-level correlates of malaria infection were evaluated over three years in a region of declining malaria transmission in southern Zambia...
- Kupffer cells are depleted with HIV immunodeficiency and partially recovered with antiretroviral immune reconstitution
Ashwin Balagopal
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
AIDS 23:2397-404. 2009
..Although hepatic macrophages (Kupffer cells) clear most microbial translocation products and can be infected by HIV, their fate in HIV progression has not been carefully investigated...
- Survival from 9 months of age among HIV-infected and uninfected Zambian children prior to the availability of antiretroviral therapy
Catherine G Sutcliffe
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Clin Infect Dis 47:837-44. 2008
..Few prospective studies have measured survival rates among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected children in sub-Saharan Africa prior to the availability of antiretroviral therapy...
- Incidence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections and risk factors for acquisition among young methamphetamine users in northern Thailand
Catherine G Sutcliffe
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Sex Transm Dis 36:284-9. 2009
..Incidence estimates of STIs are rare in Southeast Asia, especially among newer risk groups...
- Sexually transmitted infections and sexual and substance use correlates among young adults in Chiang Mai, Thailand
David D Celentano
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:400-5. 2008
..Data on the prevalence of and associated behavioral risk factors for sexually transmitted infections (STI) in young adults in Asia have not been widely studied...
