Official Estimates and AIDS Epidemiology
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
AIDS Epidemiology
Thompson’s AIDS epidemic model, which is formulated in his article “AIDS: The Mismanagement of an Epidemic,” published in Great Britain, 1989, does not reflect female infective population that has been growing. While the majority of AIDS patients were assumed to be male homosexuals, Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the percentage of infected females through heterosexual co...
متن کاملKey Facts about Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Children Worldwide
Unfortunately, we do not know how many perinatally (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) HIV-infected pepole are living in contries today, while knowing these informations is necessary. UNAIDS reports that there are 3.4 million children under 15 years of age with HIV and 2 million adolescents between 10 and 19 years of age. Although the vast majority of children were perinatally infected, older childr...
متن کاملEpidemiology and pathogenesis of AIDS-related lymphomas.
Among patients with congenital and acquired immunodeficiencies, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHLs ) are the most common tumors of the immune system. In the setting of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, as many as 10% to 20% of people ultimately developed NHLs. These tumors are clinically aggressive, frequently involve extranodal sites, and often exhibit unique features that distinguish th...
متن کاملHIV/AIDS epidemiology, pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment.
The HIV-1 pandemic is a complex mix of diverse epidemics within and between countries and regions of the world, and is undoubtedly the defining public-health crisis of our time. Research has deepened our understanding of how the virus replicates, manipulates, and hides in an infected person. Although our understanding of pathogenesis and transmission dynamics has become more nuanced and prevent...
متن کاملEpidemiology of cryptosporidiosis among European AIDS patients.
OBJECTIVE To study epidemiology and possible risk factors associated with the development of cryptosporidiosis among European patients with AIDS. METHODS An inception cohort of 6548 patients with AIDS, consecutively diagnosed from 1979 to 1989, from 52 centres in 17 European countries was studied. Data on all AIDS defining events were collected retrospectively from patients' clinical records....
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of STD & AIDS
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0956-4624,1758-1052
DOI: 10.1177/095646249100200402