Early infant diagnosis testing for HIV in a hard-to-reach fishing community in Uganda

Article Operations Research & Management Science

Forecasting commodity futures returns with stepwise regressions: Do commodity-specific factors help?

Massimo Guidolin et al.

Summary: This paper evaluates the impact of three commodity-specific variables on the predictive power of commodity futures returns, finding that their inclusion does not improve forecasting power. Additionally, the risk-adjusted performance of a mean-variance investment strategy does not show a clear outperformance by any forecasting method.

ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH (2021)

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Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Effect of disclosure of HIV status on patient representation and adherence to clinic visits in eastern Uganda: A propensity-score matched analysis

Jonathan Izudi et al.

Summary: Disclosure of HIV status is associated with increased adherence to clinic visits and lower representation for medication collection, which highlights the importance of encouraging HIV patients to disclose their virus status to enhance continuity of care.

PLOS ONE (2021)

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Article Immunology

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 95-95-95 targets: worldwide clinical and cost benefits of generic manufacture

Katherine Heath et al.

Summary: The production of generic drugs can significantly reduce the cost of HIV treatment, with only $2 billion needed annually to achieve a 95% treatment rate in 164 countries, preventing hundreds of thousands of infections and deaths. Compared to the high global expenditure on HIV pharmaceuticals, using generic drugs can make treatment more affordable and improve clinical outcomes.

AIDS (2021)

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Article Infectious Diseases