Resumo Objetivo Analisar espaço-temporalmente a incidência do vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) e síndrome adquirida (Aids) entre idosos no estado Pará, Brasil, nos anos de 2007 2018. Método Estudo ecológico utilizando notificações casos HIV/Aids em provenientes Sistema Informação Agravos Notificação. A taxa foi analisada temporalmente pelo método joinpoint espacialmente pelas técnicas aut...

Background: AIDS, caused by HIV, is a global health threat that weakens the immune system and leads to life-threatening infections. India has been heavily affected HIV/AIDS epidemic due lack of accurate information prevention efforts. Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) significant factor in HIV spread. Knowledge status through voluntary counseling testing (VCT) crucial. Despite efforts, remain...

The South African Law Commission (as it was then – hereinafter “SALC”) commissioned to investigate various aspects of the law as related HIV/AIDS. In its 5th and final report (Project 85, Interim Report on Aspects Relating AIDS Need For A Statutory Offence Aimed At Harmful HIV-Related Behaviour, April 2001 “SALC report”), dealt with “harmful (ie unacceptable) sexual behaviour by a person HIV or...

objective: to study knowledge about reproductive health among female adolescents and to assess their treatment seeking behavior regarding reproductive health problems in an urban slum of mumbai. materials and methods: cross sectional descriptive study was undertaken in an urban slum area of mumbai for period of 3 months. all adolescent girls from 10 - 19 years of age, who had attained menarche,...

background. in the medical sense, stigma has been defined as the collection of negative attitudes and beliefs that are directed at people living with a particular condition or disease process. a cohort study was conducted to explore the hiv stigma that is perceived by hiv positive individuals versus that perceived by the general population within a community based dental clinic. methods. two se...

background: the south-southern zone of nigeria is one of the zones in the country that has reported consistent high prevalent rates of hiv/aids pandemic in the last decade. in spite of bio-medical reasons adduced for the spread of the pandemic, socio-cultural factors may be major issues in the access to both prevention and treatment services especially for women. hence, this study investigated ...

background: species of microsporidia have been known as opportunistic obli-gate intracellular parasites particularly in immunocompromised patients. enterocyto-zoon bieneusi is one of most prevalent intestinal microsporida parasites in hiv + /aids patients. in this study, intestinal microsporidia infection was deter-mined in hiv + /aids patients using microscopic and molecular methods. methods: ...

human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (hiv-1) protease inhibitors comprise an important class of drugs used in hiv treatments. however, mutations of protease genes accelerated by low fidelity of reverse transcriptase yield drug resistant mutants of reduced affinities for the inhibitors. this problem is considered to be a serious barrier against hiv treatment for the foreseeable future. in this st...