Ter Tiero Elias Dah, Issifou Yaya, Ephrem Mensah, Alou Coulibaly, Jean-Baptiste Malan Kouamé, Issa Traoré, Marion Mora, Paméla Palvadeau, Camille Anoma, Bintou Dembélé Keïta, Bruno Spire, Christian Laurent,
Objective: To assess the time from HIV diagnosis to ART initiation and the effect of rapid ART initiation (i.e. within 7 days of HIV diagnosis) on attrition and virologic and immunologic responses among MSM in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Togo. Design: Prospective cohort study between 2015 and 2019. Methods: MSM aged 18 years or older newly diagnosed with HIV infection were eligible to participate. ART was proposed to participants upon HIV diagnosis, irrespective of clinical stage and CD4 + ...
Tópico(s): HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
2021 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | AIDS
August Eubanks, Bintou Dembélé Keïta, Camille Anoma, Ter Tiero Elias Dah, Ephrem Mensah, Gwenaëlle Maradan, Michel Bourrelly, Marion Mora, Lucas Riegel, Daniela Rojas Castro, Issifou Yaya, Bruno Spire, Christian Laurent, Luis Sagaon‐Teyssier,
In West Africa, few HIV services target men who have sex with men (MSM). In 2015, the interventional cohort CohMSM started offering a community-based prevention package for MSM. Participants expressed interest in pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and their eligibility was demonstrated. In 2017, PrEP was added to services already offered as part of a new program, CohMSM-PrEP, which recruited CohMSM participants and new participants. We aimed to determine whether the introduction of PrEP as an additional ...
Tópico(s): Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
2020 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes