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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia: Correlations between clinical, phenotypic, genotypic characteristics and mortality in a tertiary teaching hospital in Malaysia
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia is a serious infection that can result in significant morbidity and mortality. A retrospective cohort study was conducted to determine the predictors of mortality in...
A Novel Community Healthcare Service Delivery Model For Fishermen Who Use Drugs In Kuantan, Pahang: An Implementation Science Research
It has been estimated that there are 170,000 people who inject drugs (PWID) in Malaysia. HIV prevalence among PWID in Malaysia ranges from 25 % to 45 %. Further, people...
Malaysian AIDS Council: Baseline Assessment for Community Action on Harm Reduction
Community Action on Harm Reduction project, implemented by the Alliance with support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the government of the Netherlands (as a project number 23389), started...
Malaysian AIDS Council: Good Practices Of Civil Society Organisations In The National HIV Response
A case documentation on good practice values of civil society organisations (CSOs) in HIV response was carried out by the Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC), with the aim to showcase how...
Making Drug Treatment Work: Opportunities and Challenges Towards an Evidence and Rights-Based Approach
Compulsory drug detention centers (CDDCs) are common throughout Asia. However, medical treatments for substance use disorders, such as opioid agonist treatment (OAT), are generally unavailable in these settings. In this...
AmFAR, Foundation for AIDS Research: TAHOD Tuberculosis Study
University of New South Wales: The Altair Study
Antiretroviral therapy is complicated by drug interactions and contraindications. Novel regimens are needed. This open label study randomly assigned treatment-naive, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)—infected subjects to receive tenofovir-emtricitabine with efavirenz...
University of New South Wales: The Second-Line Study
WHO-recommended second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) of a pharmacologically enhanced (boosted) protease inhibitor plus nucleoside or nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NtRTIs) might be compromised by resistance. Results of the 96 week...
University of New South Wales: The ENCORE 1 Study
“ENCORE (for Evaluation of Novel Concepts in Optimization of antiRetroviral Efficacy) was a program originally designed to examine the safety and efficacy of lower doses of important antiretroviral drugs (ART)....