Laws permitting growth and possession of cannabis for medicinal and recreational use are currently changing rapidly in the United States (U.S.) and internationally. (Carliner et al., 2017; Caulkins et al., 2018; Mahamad and Hammond, 2019) While cultivation and use of cannabis is still considered illegal by the U.S. federal ...

Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Senegal. Senegal’s cervical cancer prevention strategy has prioritized vaccinating young girls with human papillomaviruses (HPV) vaccines, but not screening of older women. There is limited knowledge about the roles of age at first pregnancy (AFP) and parity in ...

The open-source electronic laboratory information system (OpenELIS) in Côte d’Ivoire has been in routine implementation at clinical laboratories since 2009. The data dashboard that displays aggregate data on HIV viral load (VL) testing and early infant diagnosis (EID) are becoming tools that support people to use OpenELIS ...

Doxycycline post exposure prophylaxis (dPEP) is a novel STI prevention strategy that can reduce the high prevalence of curable STIs among PrEP users. It has been shown to be efficacious among men who have sex with men and transgender women, but not cisgender women. Before its potential introduction to HIV PrEP programs, and ...

Background: Integrating and sustaining evidence-based interventions in routine care is crucial to improve HIV treatment outcomes among youth living with HIV (YLH). An Adolescent Transition Package (ATP), tested in Kenya in 2021, significantly improved YLH readiness to transition from pediatric to adult care. Post-trial, ...

Individuals incarcerated for DV-related offenses or subject to domestic violence protection orders (DVPOs; i.e., respondents) have threatened or engaged in one form of violence perpetration and may be at increased risk for experiencing others forms of violence, including suicide death. Several risk factors for perpetration ...

Oncogenic mutations in KRAS codon 12 and codon 13 within exon 2 are frequently occurring mutations in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the existing published data on the association of KRAS codon 12 and codon 13 mutations on the survival of CRC patients remains inconclusive. To address this, we conducted a systematic PubMed ...

The COVID-19 pandemic had differential impacts on vulnerable populations, including US individuals of Hispanic descent and certain working populations. Despite this, there are gaps in scientific knowledge regarding risk factors for infection in such vulnerable populations. We performed a cross-sectional analysis of attitudes ...

Background: Within six weeks of the first case of COVID-19 in early Dec 2019 in Wuhan, China, the pandemic had already a foothold half-way around the world in Washington State, where the the first case of COVID-19 in the United States was confirmed on 20 Jan 2020 in a traveler returning from the index city. A number of ...

Effective treatments have decreased vertical transmission of HIV and most infants born to women living with HIV (WLH) are HIV-exposed but uninfected (HEU). There is evidence that HEU infants have poorer growth than HIV-unexposed uninfected children (HUU). The biological and social mechanisms for growth deficits in HEU are ...