BACKGROUND Adolescents are more vulnerable than adults of unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. Among the adolescents, girls are more vulnerable to STDs including HIV/AIDS. Their knowledge about different diseases is very poor. This paper investigated adolescent's knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS, its mode of transmission and ways of ...

BACKGROUND Although Cryptosporidiumspp. infections in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients (AIDS) with chronic diarrhoea have been reported in several African countries, there is no information regarding cryptosporidial diarrhoea in Ghanaian AIDS patients. OBJECTIVE To investigate the occurrence of C. parvum and other gastrointestinal parasitic agents in Ghanaian AIDS patients with chr...

OBJECTIVES To describe the rate of progression to AIDS and survival following AIDS diagnosis in HIV-infected Africans living in London. To identify factors influencing progression and outcome of disease. DESIGN Retrospectively constructed prevalent cohort. SETTING Outpatient clinic population, London. SUBJECTS HIV-infected individuals of African origin presenting between January 1986 and ...

OBJECTIVE--To estimate the cumulative incidence of AIDS by time since seroconversion in haemophiliacs positive for HIV and to examine the evidence for excess mortality associated with HIV in those who had not yet been diagnosed as having AIDS. DESIGN--Analysis of data from ongoing national surveys. SETTING--Haemophilia centres in the United Kingdom. PATIENTS--A total of 1201 men with haemophili...

Moore’s law has been the driving force behind the increasing computing power of today’s devices which is based on shrinking feature sizes. This shrinking process makes future devices extremely susceptible to soft errors due to, e.g., external influences like environmental radiation and internal issues like stress effects, aging and process variation. For future technology nodes "Designing relia...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of an AIDS education programme designed for young adults. DESIGN A randomised trial with a pre-post test design. SETTING Participants were drawn from six youth training centres in the city of Nottingham, England. STUDY POPULATION All trainees aged 16-19 years attending the six centres were included in the sample and centres were randomly allocated t...

We discuss the motivation and an architectural framework for using small mobile robots as automated aids to operators of nondestructive inspection (NDI) equipment. We review the need for aircraft skin inspection, and identify the constraints in commercial airlines operations that make small mobile robots the most attractive alternative for automated aids for NDI procedures. We describe the desi...

We aim to raise awareness and stimulate dialogue among investigators and research ethics committees regarding ethical issues that arise specifically in the design and conduct of mHealth research involving persons living with HIV/AIDS and substance abuse. Following a brief background discussion of mHealth research in general, we offer a case example to illustrate the characteristics of mHealth r...