OBJECTIVE To study trends in HIV case notification rates in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. DESIGN A ten year retrospective review of annual HIV case notification returns to the Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS Annual Registry statistics covering the period 2000 to 2009 were reviewed. Annual incidence trends were stratified according to the following demographics: age, nati...

Business relations between countries increase because of the development society globally Regarding legal certainty for parties, business relationship needs to have an agreement. The parties should pay attention provisions use language in agreement by using from both country. So made meet valid requirements form "the existence a lawful cause. Research objectives is analyze and know technique ma...

OBJECTIVE Migrants tend to present higher overweight and obesity levels, but whether this relationship applies to all nationalities has seldom been studied. The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity according to nationality in adults. DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based samples. SETTING Five-year nationwide interview surveys (Swiss Health Surveys - SHS) ...

The causes of wide variation in the rates of HIV and AIDS epidemics among Japanese and non-Japanese nationals are not well understood. So, this paper examines the associations and assesses the potential roles of mean age at marriage, and migration in the HIV and AIDS epidemics in Japan. For the purpose, bivariate and multivariate regression analysis have been performed using epidemiological pan...

OBJECTIVE To describe incidence of Down syndrome in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 63,398 newborn babies in Dubai (24,250 UAE nationals and 39,148 non-UAE) during a 5-year period of 1999-2003 were routinely examined by experienced nurses, neonatologists, pediatricians and/or general practitioners for symptoms of Down syndrome. Those suspected with Down synd...

Editorials 719 With the approach of the September 2013 meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the post-2015 Development Agenda, the health and intersectoral development goals have become the subject of considerable debate. Little of this debate has to do, however, with how the " right to the highest attainable standard of health " applies to non-nationals – i.e. people who live in a ...

While the relationships between social networks and health are widely acknowledged in literature, few of these studies have covered population refugees living makeshift camps. In our analysis a nationally representative Italian survey individuals informal settlements, we find that many had weak family relations: only 10 per cent one or more members their settlement. The paper analyses effects i...