HIV
Review Article
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2022
Deniz Gökengin
It has been more than a decade since the first evidence of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the “Iniciativa Profilaxis Pre-Exposición” (iPreEx) study, which reported 44% efficacy. Following these results, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved PrEP in 2012 as a method of prevention from HIV for individuals at high risk, and two years later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the PrEP guidelines. Then, many other (...) Read More
Original Article
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2022
Özlem Gül and others
The presence of cognitive disorders in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected individuals has been known for a long time. A complete neuropsychological evaluation method is a gold standard for diagnosing HIV-related cognitive impairment (HAND). However, such tests require specially trained personnel and specialized centers, and testing takes a long time. Montreal Cognitive (...) Read More
Original Article
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2022
Heval Can Bilek and Aydın Deveci
In early December 2019, interstitial pneumonia of unknown origin emerged in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province. The pathogen was identified as a novel beta coronavirus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 was later named (...) Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2020
Süda Tekin and others
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by Treponema pallidum . Primary and secondary syphilis increased to a rate of 5.3 cases per 100 000 in 2013 from the rate of 2.1 per 100 000 in 2000. Neurosyphilis is the most feared and severe complication of syphilis and may occur at any time after the initial infection. Read More
Original Article
/ VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2, AUGUST 2020
Özgür Can Eren and others
In 2019, more than 36 million people were estimated to be harboring HIV, and the epidemic caused 39 million deaths worldwide to date. New adult infections have been declined by 17% between 2007 and 2017 globally. Meanwhile, the incidence has an Read More
IDCM Newsfeed
/ VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2019
Ayşe Deniz Gökengin
Over the past 38 years following the introduction of HIV infection, which affected the lives of 75 million people, many scientific advances in prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care have been recorded, and the lives of people living with HIV (PLWH) have been transformed. Currently, life expectancy for PLWH who are diagnosed early and who initiate [...] Read More