Introduction: Access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) in resource-limited countries has increased significantly but scaling up ART into rural areas is more recent and information on treatment outcome in rural areas is still very limited. We reported here virological outcome and drug resistance in ART in rural settings in Togo. Methods: HIV-1 infected adults (≥18 years) and infants were enrolle...

background: today there is a rise in the number of newborns conceived by artificial reproductive techniques (art). numerous studies have been performed on the perinatal outcome of these pregnancies. however, there is limited data about the condition of health of these newborns in iran. objective: regarding the higher prevalence of probable complications and symptomatic congenital anomalies, we ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Among patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB), reduced plasma non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTI) concentrations during rifampicin (RMP) co-administration could lead to HIV treatment failure. This study was undertaken to examine the association between plasma nevirapine (NVP) and efavirenz (EFV) concentrations and virological outcomes in patien...

BACKGROUND Compared with spontaneously conceived (SC) singletons, adverse perinatal outcome, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission and hospital admission in infancy are more common in those born following Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). Similar comparisons for twins have shown conflicting results. METHODS We investigated perinatal outcome and hospital admission during the firs...

urban spaces and in other words urban design and architecture have been found with close linkage with art and beauty especially the arts such as painting and sculpture. addressing beauty at different areas such as creation of galleries to offer works of art, addressing form of urban spaces and representing works of art in urban environment have improved social life and increased identity, conse...

Over the last years, digital preservation has become a particularly active research area. While several initiatives are dealing with the preservation of standard document formats, the challenges of preserving multimedia objects and pieces of electronic art are still to be tackled. This paper presents the findings of a pilot project for preserving born-digital interactive multimedia art. We desc...