Background: Containment measures in the COVID-19 pandemic protected individuals at high risk, particularly individuals at old age, but little is known about how these measures affected health-related behavior of old ...

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an important pillar to prevent HIV transmission. Because of experimental and clinical shortcomings, mathematical models that integrate pharmacological, viral- and host factors are ...

Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are among the most lethal toxins known to humans, comprising seven established serotypes termed BoNT/A–G encoded in two types of gene clusters (ha and orfX) in BoNT-producing clostridia. The ...

Background Health information (HI) strategies exist in several EU Member States, however, they mainly focus on technical issues and improving governance rather than on content-related priority setting. There is also ...

Background Outbreaks of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in hospitals and long-term care facilities (LTCFs) pose serious public health threats. We analysed how frequency and size of SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks in hospitals and ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, physical distancing was one of the more important behaviours for reducing the spread of the virus. The present study investigated the influence on pathogen avoidance of familiarity with other ...

Background SARS-CoV-2 replicates efficiently in the upper airways of humans and produces high loads of virus RNA and, at least in the initial phase after infection, many infectious virus particles. Studying virus ...

Background: Recent patent losses for antiretroviral drugs (ARV) have led to the debate of cost-saving through the replacement of patented drugs with generic drugs. The split of recommended single-tablet regimens (STR) ...

Vor 40 Jahren wurde das Humane Immundefizienz-Virus (HIV) erstmals als das Virus identifiziert und beschrieben, welches das erworbene Immunschwächesyndrom AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) verursacht. Vor diesem ...

Die HIV-Prävalenz in der Ukraine wurde im Jahr 2019 bezogen auf die Gesamtbevölkerung auf 0,9 – 1,0 % geschätzt, wobei die Prävalenz in bestimmten vulnerablen Gruppen deutlich höher liegen dürfte. Durch den Angriffskrieg ...