the aim of this study was to determine the effect of a school- based educational program regarding hiv/aids and the knowledge held by the high school students. this quasi-experimental study was conducted with 230 high school students (grade 10-12 female, male). teaching aids used for this intervention was a combination of three methods including lectures, showing an educational movie and pamphl...

This study aims to determine the relationship between religious practices of people living with HIV/AIDS. The design in this is a descriptive analytic study. results from 153 respondents that most Islam HIV/AIDS group were moderate 105 (68.6%). There significant Most are and moderate. In conclusion, there level practice HIV/AIDS.
 
 Keywords: HIV/AIDS, Religious Practice

background : aids is acquired by infection with hiv (human immuno-deficiency virus). it leaves the host susceptible to malignant and unusual infections especially opportunistic ones. most of aids patients infected with opportunistic parasitic infections die because of chronic diarrhea and deaths due to cryptosporidium diarrhea in aids patients are considerable in the recent two decades. the aim...

the economic burden of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (hiv/aids) is far greater than its direct medical costs. this study estimated annual indirect costs of the hiv/aids epidemic in islamic republic of iran in 2006-2007 from societal perspective. a patient cost diary in sets of six booklets covering a total of 6 months (from october 2006 and fallowed until march...

cryptococcus neoformans is the most incriminated fungal pathogen causing meningitis in acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) patients, and is known to constitute a major cause of deaths in aids patients. this study aimed to determine the sero-prevalence and effect of cd4 count on seropositivity for cryptococcus neoformans antigen (crag) in antiretroviral- naïve (art-naïve) aids patients. t...