Increased emphasis on community-based care of people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and AIDS is recommended by the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Patients prefer to be treated within their community, and primary care reduces the demand on scarce, costly, and already overloaded hospital facilities. Thus, there is an increasingly large role for primary care physicians to play in t...

background people living with hiv (plhiv) are highly stigmatized and consequently hard-to-access by researchers and importantly, public health outreach in iran, possibly due to the existing socio-cultural situation in this country. the present study aimed to evaluate the sexual and reproductive health needs of plhiv in tehran, the capital of iran.   methods as a mixed-method descriptive study, ...

BACKGROUND The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to be a major health issue in the United States, and an estimated 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV. As part of Healthy People 2020, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion has targeted the persistent demographic and geographic disparities in HIV prevalence and management. Preliminary evidence su...

The first World Health Organization's global action plan for mental health recognizes the importance of mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders, through the inclusion of one of four objectives focused on this crucial area of research and practice. This paper aims to provide an 'aerial view' of the field of mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders with a focu...

BACKGROUND General practitioners are aware of the need to provide easily accessible health promotion information for their patients. Although many practices use health promotion posters in their surgeries, there appears to have been no formal evaluation of their effectiveness. AIM A study was undertaken to investigate whether patients read and remembered waiting room posters, and if so, what ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth living in far north Queensland in relation to sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS and safe sex. METHODS Community consultation followed by local recruitment of a sample of young people who, in a facilitated same gender focus group setting, completed a questionnaire followed ...

OBJECTIVE To examine sexual health disparities between blacks and whites in a national sample of US college students. PARTICIPANTS AND METHOD SUMMARY: Analyses utilized secondary data from 44,165 nonmarried undergraduates (aged 18-24; M = 20.1) responding to the Spring 2007 American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment; 64% were female and 94.7% were white. RESULTS Wh...