My Poor Sofija

painting and essay competition: my city, my neighborhood

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O-23: "Caring My Family Integrity"

MHMD: My Health, My Data

MHMD is an EU-funded project poised to create the first open biomedical information network centred on the connection between organisations and the individual, aiming at encouraging hospitals to start making anonymised data available for open research, while prompting citizens to become the ultimate owners and controllers of their health data.

"Diabetes is my companion": lifestyle and self-management among good and poor control Mexican diabetic patients.

This paper identifies naturally occurring lifestyle and self-care practices in managing type 2 diabetes mellitus that are associated with good glycemic control. In-depth, qualitative interviews were conducted in Guadalajara, Mexico, with 31 matched pairs of good and poor control diabetic patients (n=62), who were matched on their duration of disease and use of medications. While many themes wer...

“It's my secret”: Barriers to paediatric HIV treatment in a poor rural South African setting

In South Africa, a third of children born are exposed to HIV, while fewer undergo an HIV confirmatory test. Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) coverage among children remains low-despite roll-out of the national ART programme in South Africa in 2004. This study sought to understand critical barriers to seeking HIV-related care for children in rural South Africa. Data presented in this article derive...