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Treatment outcomes and paving the way for an HIV cure in Low and Middle Income Countries
Edited by Dr Eric Arts, Dr Nicaise Ndembi and Dr Denis Tebit
Discussion of HIV treatment outcomes in LMICs has historically been neglected, even though it is in these countries that a cure is most crucial. This series covers the ways treatment outcomes can be improved along the way to a HIV cure in states defined as LMICs by the WHO.
Currently open for submissions - submit to the series here
Spatial inequality, infectious diseases and disease control
Cross-journal collection
Spatial inequality is the unequal distribution of resources and services across different areas or locations, such as healthcare, welfare, public services, household income and infrastructures, and it can be described in terms of proximity, distance, clustering and concentration. This collection brings together research that investigates the relationship between spatial inequalities of all kinds and the impact and prevalence of infectious diseases, including the impact of antimicrobial resistance.
Currently open for submissions - submit to the series here
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Eric J Arts is Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Western University in London, Canada. His research for the past 16 years described in over 120 publications has focused on HIV-1 fitness, evolution, and virulence in regards to transmission, disease progression, immune escape, drug resistance, and global HIV spread.
Since 1998, he has directed the research laboratories at the Joint Clinical Research Centre, Kampala, Uganda and has collaborated with investigators in Zimbabwe, China, Cameroon, Belgium, UK, France, Brazil, and Argentina. His research has been supported by grants from the NIH (NIAID, NICHD, and NHLBI), from the State of Ohio, Merck, and amfAR. He has served as chair and member of the NIH and CIHR grant panel and has reviewed grants for the many governments around the world.
Dr. Ndembi serves Director of Research at the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention at the IHV, University of Maryland School of Medicine, US and Research Professor, Global Affairs Section, Kanazawa University, Japan.
Before that, Dr. Ndembi was head of the Virology Laboratory at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit) where he supported several multi-country randomized controlled trials on HIV treatment strategy including the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cluster-randomized trial to compare the effectiveness of home-based compared with facility-based delivery of antiretroviral therapy (Lancet 2009) and the UK Medical Research Council DART trial (Lancet 2010).
Dr. Ndembi has served on several scientific advisory panels and continues to serve as an advisor on HIV drug resistance and control policy to Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health. He is a member of the PharmAccess Technical Advisory board for the Pan-African Study for Evaluation of Resistance (PASER) in Africa (Lancet Infectious Diseases 2012) and WHOResistance Network TWG (Lancet 2012). He has authored/co-authored more than 100 publications in peer reviewed journals. He is PI and co-investigator on numerous US National Health Institute (NIH) grants.
Speed
88 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
34 days to first decision for all manuscripts
138 days from submission to acceptance
15 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
2.092 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.354 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.149 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.245 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
274,962 Downloads
76 Altmetric Mentions
