Dr. Lynn T Matthews M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
55 Fruit St Jackson 504, Infecti Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Lynn Matthews is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Matthews specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine 2004
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Reproductive decision-making and periconception practices among HIV-positive men and women attending HIV services in Durban, South Africa.
- Antiretrovirals and safer conception for HIV-serodiscordant couples.
- Contraceptive use and associated factors among women enrolling into HIV care in southwestern Uganda.
- A conceptual framework for understanding HIV risk behavior in the context of supporting fertility goals among HIV-serodiscordant couples.
- Women with pregnancies had lower adherence to 1% tenofovir vaginal gel as HIV preexposure prophylaxis in CAPRISA 004, a phase IIB randomized-controlled trial.
- Incidence and predictors of pregnancy among a cohort of HIV-positive women initiating antiretroviral therapy in Mbarara, Uganda.
- Whoonga: potential recreational use of HIV antiretroviral medication in South Africa.
- Reliability and validity of instruments for assessing perinatal depression in African settings: systematic review and meta-analysis.
- South Africans with recent pregnancy rarely know partner's HIV serostatus: implications for serodiscordant couples interventions.
- Antiretroviral Therapy Helps HIV-Positive Women Navigate Social Expectations for
- The influence of partnership on contraceptive use among HIV-infected women accessing antiretroviral therapy in rural Uganda.
- Safer Conception Strategies for HIV-Serodiscordant Couples: How Safe Is Safe
- PrEP as Peri-conception HIV Prevention for Women and Men.
- Developing a Safer Conception Intervention for Men Living with HIV in South Africa.
- Supporting HIV prevention and reproductive goals in an HIV-endemic setting: taking safer conception services from policy to practice in South Africa.
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