Child prostitution is a significant global problem that has yet to receive appropriate medical and public health attention. Worldwide, an estimated 1 million children are forced into prostitution every year and the total number of prostituted children could be as high as 10 million. Inadequate data exist on the health problems faced by prostituted children, who are at high risk of infectious di...

Introduction: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), syphilis, and hepatitis B are sexually transmitted infections (STIs) that can pass from pregnant women to their babies. Transmission of HIV, Hepatitis children mothers’ results in morbidity, disability, death. Indonesia has adopted the Prevention Mother-to-Child (PMTCT) as a national policy, following voluntary counseling testing approach.

OBJECTIVES Workplace injuries are of concern in adolescent and child workers. The factors of such injuries are important for injury prevention. This study explored the predictors of injury in such workers. METHODS This study was carried out in stone quarries and included 147 children and adolescent workers (81 males and 66 females). The mean age of the subjects was 11.3 years. An interviewer-...

good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. for millions of child...

Mucociliary dysfunction can be caused by the absence of cilia or by abnormalities in their ultrastructure. A family in which some members were suffering from respiratory morbidity due to lack of cilia is described. (Arch Dis Child 1996;75:76-77)

Three children with left atrial myxomas are described. All suffered major arterial occlusion with consequent permanent morbidity before the diagnosis was made and the tumour removed. Each child had had previous small embolic phenomena. In two, the diagnosis was made by ultrasound. In any child who has had an arterial embolus without obvious cause, a left atrial myxoma should be considered and l...

1. department of surgery, isfahan university of medical science (iums), isfahan, iran                                                 corresponding author: seyed abbas tabatabaei, md. email: [email protected] received: 14 nov. 2014 accepted: 07 feb. 2015  iran j cancer prev. 2015; 2:89-93.     abstract background: considering the poor survival rate of patients with esophageal cancers, mai...

objectives: to determine the epidemiology of injuries of the motorcyclists in road traffic accidents (rtis) between 2008 and 2014 in east azarbayejan province of iran. methods: a cross-sectional study was performed in east azerbaijan province in imam reza hospital on motorcyclists subjected to injuries in rtis between 2008 and 2014. demographic characteristics (age, sex), duration of hospitaliz...

objectives: tourette syndrome is a disorder with motor and vocal tics, which has many psychiatric comorbidities. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is one of co-morbid features of this syndrome. the aim of this research is studying tourette and co morbidity adhd in school age children. one of our purposes is to identify the range of adhd in iranian tourette patients. methods: thirt...

Malaria is major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The highest incidence of malaria in the world is South East Asia. India is most affected country followed by Indonesia and Myanmar. The prevalence of malaria varies according to geographical region. Diagnosis of malaria infection has been underestimated. Here, we report a case of under-diagnosed complicated vivax malaria in one-yr-old...