Cost effectiveness analysis of clinically driven versus routine laboratory monitoring of antiretroviral therapy in Uganda and Zimbabwe. by Antonieta Medina Lara, Jesse Kigozi, Jovita Amurwon, Lazarus Muchabaiwa, Barbara Nyanzi Wakaholi, Ruben E Mujica Mota, A Sarah Walker, Ronnie Kasirye, Francis Ssali, Andrew Reid, Heiner Grosskurth, Abdel G Babiker, Cissy Kityo, Elly Katabira, Paula Munderi, Peter Mugyenyi, James Hakim, Janet Darbyshire, Diana M Gibb, Charles F Gilks, DART Trial Team

“…<h4>Background</h4>Despite funding constraints for treatment programmes in Africa, the costs and economic consequences of routine laboratory monitoring for efficacy and toxicity of antiretroviral therapy (ART) have rarely been evaluated.…”
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The impact of monitoring HIV patients prior to treatment in resource-poor settings: insights from mathematical modelling. by Timothy B Hallett, Simon Gregson, Sabada Dube, Geoff P Garnett

“…If individuals primarily enter ART programmes when symptomatic, the model predicts that only 25% will start treatment and, on average, 6 life-years will be saved per person treated. …”
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Combining detection dogs and camera traps improves minimally invasive population monitoring for the cheetah, an elusive and rare large carnivore by Stijn Verschueren, Tim Hofmann, Anne Schmidt‐Küntzel, Mikael Kakove, Benny Munyandi, Hans Bauer, Niko Balkenhol, Herwig Leirs, Stephan Neumann, Bogdan Cristescu, Laurie Marker

“…Our findings provide practical guidance for designing effective minimally invasive monitoring programmes, which are important for empirically deriving distribution maps of cheetahs and other carnivores in data‐poor regions.…”
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Estimation of tuberculosis incidence at subnational level using three methods to monitor progress towards ending TB in India, 2015–2020 by Swati Mahajan, Amar Shah, Sarit Sharma, Rituparna Das, Kathiresan Jeyashree, Mathavaswami Vijayageetha, Bhavesh Modi, Burugina Nagaraja Sharath, Vijay Singh, Shamim Mannan, Sairu Philip, Jasleen Kaur, Ranjani Ramachandran, Raghuram Rao, Sriram Selvaraju, Bency Joseph, Vaibhav Shah, Kiran Rade, Lalit Sankhe, Surinder Singh, Sandeep Chauhan, Anupam Banerjee, Devender Kumar, Ganapathy Kalaiselvan, Bhavin Vadera, Paras Mehta, Meenakumari Natarajan, Manoj Murhekar, Aswathy Sreedevi, Jeromie Thangaraj, Saravanakumar Velusamy, Sasidharan Akhil, Dhanapal Sudha Rani, Ramasamy Sabarinathan, Sakthivel Manikandanesan, Rajalakshmi Elumalai, Amarendra Mahapatra, Almas Shamim, Ashok Bhardwaj, Anil Purty, Anand Sridhar, Aniket Chowdhury, Asif Shafie, Avijit Choudhury, Deka Dhrubjyoti, Hardik Solanki, Krushna Sirmanwar, Kshitij Khaparde, Malik Parmar, Nisha Dahiya, Parija Debdutta, Quazi Ahmed, Ranjeet Prasad, Rohini Shinde, Rupali Baruah, Sandip Bharaswadkar, Shanta Achanta, Shibu Balakrishnan, Shivani Chandra, Sophia Khumukcham, Sudarsan Mandal, Sumitha Chalil, Venkatesh Roddawar, Kuldeep Sachdeva, Jayakrishna Kurada, Mayank Sharma, Debajyoti Mohapatra, Yogesh Patel, Sapna Thekkepat, Karthikeyan Kumaraswamy, Mallika Tharakan, Shramana Majumdar, Vrinda Manocha, Sukriti Chauhan, Shekhar Waikar, Puja Ambule, Krithika Murali, Devi Madhavi Bhimarasetty, Tulika Goswami, Darshan Mahyavanshi, Krutarth Bhrahmbhatt, Bhautik Modi, Anmol Gupta, Sunil Raina, Rajiv Kumar Gupta, Ratnesh Sinha, Manju Toppo, Gajen Medhi, Swati M Patki, Bishnu Ram Das, Lisa Sarangi, Afsal Hakim, Suresh Balan, Baer Philip Ravikumar, Subrata Baidya, Abhik Sinha, Boddepalli Nagendra Naidu, Bikash Chandra Nayak, Anoop Dev, Pallavi Boro, Debarshi Paul, Amrita Sarkar, Bhavesh Bariya, Jatin Chhaya, Dixit Chauhan, Mithun Sanghavi, Nilesh Thakor, Rohit Ram, Hinal Baria, Abhilash Sood, Anupam Parashar, Yangchen Dolma, Rakesh Bahl, Dilip Kumar, Mohammad Salim Khan, A K Jayasree, Zinia Nujum, Sheela P Haveri, Dinesh Bhatnagar, Subrata Kumar Palo, Priyesh Marskole, Prashant Verma, Dinesh Kumar Pal, Neelam Toppo, Sanjay R Quraishi, Sunil Panigrahi, Rambadan Chauhan, Jayashree Gothankar, Swapnali S Kadam, Dasi Rao, Sudhir Wanje, Pallavi Uplap, Ningombam Joenna Devi, Rikrak Ch Marak, Markordor Lyngdoh, Manoj B Patki, Satyajit Sundar Ray, Kavita Vasudevan, Mahesh Satija, Mahesh Choudhary, Mitin Parmar, Venkatesh Govindasamy, Karlapudi Nitesh Kumar, Goutham Thumari, Amar Tripura, Chanda Mog, Shampa Das, Ritesh Singh, Chandra Shekar Maity, Mamta Gehlawat

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Availability and Use of HIV Monitoring and Early Infant Diagnosis Technologies in WHO Member States in 2011-2013: Analysis of Annual Surveys at the Facility Level. by Vincent Habiyambere, Nathan Ford, Daniel Low-Beer, John Nkengasong, Anita Sands, Mercedes Pérez González, Paula Fernandes, Ekaterina Milgotina

“…<h4>Background</h4>The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) 90-90-90 targets have reinforced the importance of functioning laboratory services to ensure prompt diagnosis and to assess treatment efficacy. …”
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Partnering RemoTe monitoring of Implanted Cardiac devices with Intelligent PATient Engagement – PARTICIPATE trial: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Tim Shaw, Liliana Laranjo, Clara K Chow, Aravinda Thiagalingam, Brodie Sheahen, Gopal Sivagangabalan

“…The control group will receive CIED remote monitoring education and clinical issue management as per standard practice at their respective sites. …”
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A cross‐sectional study evaluating the frequency of HIV drug resistance mutations among individuals diagnosed with HIV‐1 in tenofovir disoproxil fumarate‐based pre‐exposure prophyl... by Urvi M. Parikh, Lauren D. Kudrick, Lisa Levy, Everline Bosek, Bhavna H. Chohan, Irene Mukui, Sarah Masyuko, Nonhlanhla Ndlovu, Imelda Mahaka, Owen Mugurungi, Gertrude Ncube, Anita Hettema, Sindy N. Matse, Saiqa Mullick, Carole L. Wallis, Amy L. Heaps, Kerri J. Penrose, Kevin D. McCormick, Lubbe Wiesner, Peter L. Anderson, Jill M. Peterson, Connie Celum, Barbra A. Richardson, Delivette Castor, Shannon Allen, Kristine Torjesen, John W. Mellors, Global Evaluation of Microbicide Sensitivity (GEMS) Project

“…Accordingly, the Global Evaluation of Microbicide Sensitivity (GEMS) project was established to monitor HIVDR in PrEP rollout programmes in Southern and Eastern Africa. …”
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Physical and insecticidal durability of PermaNet® 3.0 and Olyset® plus piperonyl butoxide-synergist insecticide-treated nets in Sierra Leone: results of durability monitoring from... by Raymond Kiprop Sudoi, Keith Esch, Frederick Yamba, Laurent Iyikirenga, Charlene Youssef, Prince Nallo, Isabel Swamidoss, Carla Mapp, Dennis Marke, Samuel Juana Smith, Ronald Carshon-Marsh, Musa Sillah-Kanu, Dave Schnabel, Jacky Raharinjatovo, Jenny Carlson, Rebecca Levine, Evelyne Alyko, Ramlat Jose, Tony Hughes, Djenam Jacob, Yemane Yihdego, Kevin Opondo, Stephen Poyer

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Ultrahigh-Performance Radio Frequency System-on-Chip Implementation of a Kalman Filter-Based High-Precision Time and Frequency Synchronization for Networked Integrated Sensing and... by Roghayeh Ghasemi, Patrick Fenske, Tobias Koegel, Markus Hehn, Ingrid Ullmann, Martin Vossiek

“…Due to the deterministic processing time inherent in the FPGA, the proposed synchronization method achieves exceptional precision, with clock offset deviations in the nanosecond range and clock rate deviations limited to only a few parts per billion, even across considerable distances between the network nodes.…”
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Glycaemic control in labour with diabetes: GILD, a scoping study by Nia Wyn Jones, Eleanor J Mitchell, Kate F Walker, Susan Ayers, Lucy Bradshaw, Georgina Constantinou, Tasso Gazis, Shalini Ojha, Phoebe Pallotti, Stavros Petrou, Rachel Plachcinski, Michael Rimmer, Liz Schroeder, Jim G Thornton, Natalie Wakefield

“…However, this monitoring can be intrusive for women in labour and is expensive. …”
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Distinct brain atrophy progression subtypes underlie phenoconversion in isolated REM sleep behaviour disorderResearch in context by Stephen Joza, Aline Delva, Christina Tremblay, Andrew Vo, Marie Filiatrault, Max Tweedale, Jean-François Gagnon, Ronald B. Postuma, Alain Dagher, Johannes Klein, Michele Hu, Petr Dusek, Stanislav Marecek, Zsoka Varga, John-Paul Taylor, John T. O'Brien, Michael Firbank, Alan Thomas, Paul C. Donaghy, Stéphane Lehéricy, Marie Vidailhet, Jean-Christophe Corvol, ICEBERG Study Group, Richard Camicioli, Howard Chertkow, Simon Lewis, Elie Matar, Kaylena A. Ehgoetz Martens, Lachlan Churchill, Michael Sommerauer, Sinah Röttgen, Per Borghammer, Karoline Knudsen, Allan K. Hansen, Dario Arnaldi, Beatrice Orso, Pietro Mattioli, Luca Roccatagliata, Oury Monchi, Shady Rahayel, Isabelle Arnulf, Samir Bekadar, Eve Benchetrit, Alexis Brice, Vanessa Brochard, Alizé Chalançon, Benoit Colsch, Florence Cormier-Dequaire, Jean-Christophe Corvol, Virginie Czernecki, Bertrand Degos, Cécile Delorme, Pauline Dodet, Carole Dongmo-Kenfack, Marie-Odile Habert, Farid Ichou, Jonas Ihle, Cécile Galléa, Rahul Gaurav, Marie-Alexandrine Glachant, Manon Gomes, David Grabli, Elodie Hainque, Laetitia Jeancolas, Christelle Laganot, Stéphane Lehéricy, Suzanne Lesage, Smaranda Leu-Semenescu, Richard Levy, Valentine Maheo, Graziella Mangone, Louise Laure Mariani, Aurelie Méneret, Poornima Menon, Fanny Mochel, Vincent Perlbarg, Dijana Petrovska, Fanny Pineau, Nadya Pyatigorskaya, Sophie Rivaud-Pechoux, Emmanuel Roze, Sara Sambin, Julie Socha, Arthur Tenenhaus, Romain Valabregue, Marie Vidailhet, Lydia Yahia-Cherif

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Persistent difficulties in switching to second-line ART in sub-saharan Africa--a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Yoann Madec, Sandrine Leroy, Marie-Anne Rey-Cuille, Florence Huber, Alexandra Calmy

“…Incidence rate of switch was in mean 2.65 per 100 person-years (PY) (95% confidence interval: 2.01-3.30); it ranged from 0.42 to 4.88 per 100 PY and from 0 to 4.80 per 100 PY in programmes with and without viral load monitoring, respectively. …”
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Progress towards the 95-95-95 targets to end HIV by 2030 in Lebanon, 2023. by Mohammed Gouda ElMedrek, Joumana Hermez, Yvan Hutin, Abdinasir Abubakar, Ghada Muhjazi, Emmanuel Olatunji, Muhammad Shahid Jamil, Ahmed Sabry Alaama, Nevin Wilson, Firass Abiad, Hiam Yaacoub, Mostafa El Nakib

“…In 2023, we reviewed the programme to guide its planned transition back into the structure of the Ministry of Health [MOH].…”
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Healthy lifestyle interventions in general practice, Part 3: Lifestyle and chronic respiratory disease by Martin P. Schwellnus, Deepak N. Patel, Craig Nossel, Marieke Dreyer, Simon Whitesman, Wayne E. Derman

“…The main elements of the intervention programme are smoking cessation, exercise training (minimum of three times per week), education, psychosocial support and nutritional support. …”
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Aquaponics System Implementation in Catfish Farming at Labruk Lor Village, Lumajang District, Lumajang Regency by Asus Maizar Suryanto Hertika, Euis Elih Nurlaelih, Shofwan Shofwan, Renanda Baghaz Dzulhamdani Surya Putra, Muhammad Asnin Alfarisi

“…Service Doctoral Grant programme aims to address issues by offering counselling, training, and optimising yard use through aquaponic activities within the Rumah pangan lestari (RPL) programme. …”
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Avalanche feeding of the Djankuat Glacier by V. V. Popovnin, T. V. Pylayeva

“…A case study was realized for 1998/99 balance year when accumulation value was the closest to its long-term mean over the 46-year-long monitoring period. Snow avalanche feeding turned out to be only 2.8 per cent of total accumulation that is about an order of magnitude smaller than assumed hitherto.…”
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Updated hoverfly (Diptera, Syrphidae) checklist of the Foreste Casentinesi National Park (Italy) by Giovanni Burgio, Martina Di Saverio, Guido Crudele, Daniele Sommaggio

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Differentiation of the use of remote traffic research methods by A. А. Testeshev, V. D. Timohovets, T. G. Babich

“…The article presents a feasibility study of remote sensing application based on the " cost per unit of accuracy" criterion. Its values ranged from 0.08 to 1393.94 thousand rubles depending on the selected monitoring method and the area of spatial structures of the studied objects. …”
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Evaluation of the NHS England Low-Calorie Diet implementation pilot: a coproduced mixed-method study by Louisa J Ells, Tamara Brown, Jamie Matu, Ken Clare, Simon Rowlands, Maria Maynard, Karina Kinsella, Kevin Drew, Jordan R Marwood, Pooja Dhir, Tamla S Evans, Maria Bryant, Wendy Burton, Duncan Radley, Jim McKenna, Catherine Homer, Adam Martin, Davide Tebaldi, Tayamika Zabula, Stuart W Flint, Chris Keyworth, Mick Marston, Tanefa Apekey, Janet E Cade, Chirag Bakhai

“…Ongoing programme monitoring and long-term follow-up are now required. …”
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‘Effects of a home-based bimodal lifestyle intervention in frail patients with end-stage liver disease awaiting orthotopic liver transplantation’: study protocol of a non-randomise... by Hans Blokzijl, Vincent E de Meijer, Rienk Dekker, Joost M Klaase, Coby Annema, Bart C Bongers, Allard G Wijma, Job AM van der Palen, Frans JC Cuperus

“…The programme is patient tailored and comprises high-intensity interval and endurance training, and functional exercises three times per week, combined with nutritional support. …”
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