Safeguarding equitable HIV service delivery at the health facility-level in a resource-limited setting during the pandemic

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic had a severe impact on delivering essential health services, including HIV service delivery.Among the challenges encountered and addressed by the HIV and AIDS Department of the San Lazaro Hospital were ensuring continued access to antiretroviral therapy and ensuring continuity of fendi wide belt client education and e

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Disease misclassification in electronic healthcare database studies: Deriving validity indices-A contribution from the ADVANCE project.

There is a strong and continuously growing interest in using large electronic healthcare databases to study health outcomes and the effects of pharmaceutical products.However, concerns regarding disease misclassification (i.e.classification errors of the disease status) and its impact on the study results are legitimate.Validation is therefore incr

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An HR-Induced Tobacco Peroxidase Gene Is Responsive to Spermine, but Not to Salicylate, Methyl Jasmonate, and Ethephon

In Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)-infected tobacco plants carrying the N resistance gene, a hypersensitive reaction or response (HR) occurs to enclose the virus in the infected tissue.Although a female galaxy skin contribution of peroxidases to the resistance has been proposed, no evidence has been presented that tobacco peroxidase genes respond to HR.

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