For monitoring viral load (VL) or Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) of HIV-1, real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) is used to perform on plasma or Dried Blood Spot (DBS) sample. The qPCR method is expensive and requires sophisticated equipment. Therefore, there is a requirement for newer and cheaper technology for VL measurement or EID.
This falls along the themes of financial burden for cancer patients and discusses innovations and strategies for health care providers.
Emerging Practices in Telehealth: Best Practices in a Rapidly Changing Field, 2023, Pages 131-140
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by hihglighting low to high technology options, telehealth platform training for support staff and providers, subsidized and improved budgets for telehealth, and improved reimbursement as vital steps to close the digital divide and improve health-care disparities.
This article looks at changes in stress levels and study habits during the COVID-19 pandemic across students at HBCUs.
This content advances goals 4, 5 and 10 by highlighting diversity, equity and inclusion for women in the world of hand surgery.
This review article advances goals 3, 5, and 10 by addressing inequity in care among pregnant women with asthma in underserved communities and examining potential interventions that may help improve health outcomes and standard of care.
This chapter advances Goals 4 and 10 by educating hand surgeons on how to be true allies and how to increase diversity and inclusion.
This chapter advances Goals 5 and 10 by addressing ways we can support the needs of female hand surgeons.
This piece highlights the importance of a culturally-sensitive approach to the management of infectious diseases and wellness for Indigenous people that take into account the rich and specific cultural milieu of the different populations to make decisions together.
This article highlights the continuity of care where new culturally specific midwife continuity models had been recently implemented.
