conclusions the results indicate a rapid increase in the number of hiv/aids cases in east azerbaijan, necessitating immediate attention and strategies to combat the rapid spread of the disease. development of provincial and national hiv/aids strategies demands more accurate and comprehensive hiv/aids surveillance. background this study was performed in response to the rapid propagation of hiv/a...

Conflicts between ethnic groups can threaten group survival and exacerbate son preference in conformity with the traditional role of men as defenders. We study impact Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh region on subnational variation sex ratios among children Armenia that has one world’s highest at birth. Difference-in-differences analysis shows communities closer to have higher ...

Almost two decades since conflict broke out between Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia, two northern neighbors of Iran, in Nagorno – Karabakh region. Although military conflict in this region has minimized with the existing ceasefire, and reaching a sustainable agreement is likely to be happened by the two parties. Close regional and international cooperation seems necessary more than ever in o...

b a ckground: several important diseases are transmitted by mosquitoes. despite of the potential of the occurrence of some mosquito-borne diseases such as west nile, dirofilariasis and malaria in the region, there is no recent study of mosquitoes in west azerbaijan province. the aim of this investigation was to study the fauna, composition and dis- tribution of mosquitoes and the characteristic...

Introduction. An attempt to divide, according the territorial origin, a single data array made up of sizes skulls Iron Age series using multidimensional statistics has become goal this work. Materials and methods. Individual on male from territory South Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan) Steppe region Eastern Europe (Srubnaya culture Russian steppes, Moldavia Lower Don, Saka Turkmenistan) ...

The North-Western and Central region of Asia stretches from Turkey through Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, to Iran and Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan and Afghanistan. These countries in the main share Turkic, Iranian or Caucasus ethnicity and culture and can be considered as a regional entity for cooperation in control of cancer. The present review of cancer regi...

BACKGROUND The main goal of this study was to conduct a comparative population genetic study of Turkish speaking Iranian Azeries as being the biggest ethno-linguistic community, based on the polymorph markers on Y chromosome. METHODS One hundred Turkish-speaking Azeri males from north-west Iran (Tabriz, 2008-2009) were selected based on living 3 generations paternally in the same region and n...

BACKGROUND Evaluating demographic characteristics, distribution and types of orthopedic injuries following major earthquakes may be helpful in future planning for disasters. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to analyze data from trauma patients with extremity injury resulting from the earthquakes of East Azerbaijan, Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS Medical records of 686 patients admitted to Shohada ho...

In a tuberculosis (TB) program in the Central Penitentiary Hospital of Azerbaijan, we analyzed 65 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by IS6110-based restriction fragment-length polymorphism (RFLP) and spoligotyping. From 11 clusters associated with 33 patients, 31 isolates had an IS6110-based banding pattern characteristic of the Beijing genotype of M. tuberculosis. In addition, 15 M. tuber...