Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) is an important opportunistic infection of HIV/AIDS. However, very little is known about antibody seropositivities to HHV8 lytic and latent antigens among HIV-infected patients in China. Therefore, a cross-sectional study was conducted to explore HHV8 serostatus among 316 HIV-infected patients in a rural area of central China. The antibody seropositivity to HHV8 ORF65...

Data from two seroprevalence studies and one comparative study of confirmatory algorithms were used to compare the costs and sensitivities of six algorithms for determining seropositivity to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We evaluated confirmatory strategies by using the CBC Recombigen HIV enzyme immunoassay (EIA; Cambridge BioScience, Worcester, Mass.) and immunoblotting followed by radio...

The potential impact of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) on clinical, immunological and virological responses to initial highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) of patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is important to evaluate due to the high prevalence of HIV-HCV coinfection. A historical cohort study was conducted among 824 HIV-infected patients starting HAART at a public ...

Short-term projections of HIV/AIDS incidence are critical for assessing future healthcare needs of the society. This article reviews the back-calculation method as a means to reconstruct past pattern of HIV counts and to estimate future AIDS incidence. The major sources of uncertainties and difficulties in application of this method to AIDS data in India are pointed out. A methodology built aro...

Hemodialysis (HD) patients are a special group of who at high risk for infection and related complications. Blood-borne viruses associated with chronic diseases such as hepatitis B virus (HBV), C (HCV) human immunodeficiency (HIV) important causes morbidity mortality in HD patients. Immunodeficiency the patients, weak protective efficacy vaccines (HBV etc.), invasive vascular procedures, long-t...

BACKGROUND HIV/AIDS epidemic and sexual assault have emerged as the most serious public health problems in South Africa. The country has about 5-million HIV infected individuals. About a million women are raped every year. OBJECTIVES To study the incidence of HIV infection in victims of sexual assaults. DESIGN This is a retrospective descriptive study. There were 831 victims of sexual assau...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) a major public health problem in India show various trends in different parts of the country. However, there are limited data on the changing profile of laboratory proven STIs in the same clinic over the years. The present study was thus aimed to determine the changing trends of the profile of STIs and HIV seropositivity in STD clin...

Our case illustrates the first report of an HIV-infected patient with a nasopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma with viremia by one Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and seropositivity by two high risk oncogenic human papilloma viruses (HPV)-types (HPV-16 and HPV-33), previous to his death. This patient presented a fatal fast-evolution.