Significant Challenges Facing HIV Practitioners

Significant challenges facing HIV practitioners.

The care of patients with HIV infection has become possibly the most rewarding and yet most challenging specialty in medicine. The advances over the past 10–15 years have been extraordinary and probably are unrivaled by those for the treatment of any other contemporary disease. However, treatment-related decisions are complex, and the penalties for mistakes are harsh. There are now 24 antiretro...

Challenges Facing Educational Research

Challenges facing radiology educators.

This article summarizes the current challenges faced by radiology educators. These are discussed under the headings of time available for education, financing education, what and how to teach, student evaluation, support infrastructure, and challenges to leadership.

Challenges Facing Production Grids

Today’s global communities of users expect quality of service from distributed Grid systems equivalent to that their local data centers. This must be coupled to ubiquitous access to the ensemble of processing and storage resources across multiple Grid infrastructures. We are still facing significant challenges in meeting these expectations, especially in the underlying security, a sustainable a...

Challenges facing child protection.

The challenges facing children in the 21st century are immense and will need to be faced if we are to achieve the goal of child protection for all. Three specific constraints on child protection are examined in this article, namely poverty, HIV/AIDS infection, and war. The authors use their experience in Africa to raise issues of resilience and adaptation, dangers to child protection programs, ...