everyone there is a rational, informed, and sensitive presentation of the history, current status, and prospects regarding AIDS. There is even an excellent, well-illustrated introduction to the immunology of AIDS. Also provided are summaries of the pathology and clinical presentation of AIDS and of its cousin and sometime precursor, AIDS-related complex (ARC). Last, policy issues related to AID...

OBJECTIVE To systematically review and analyse data from cohorts of people who inject drugs (PWID) to improve existing estimates of non-AIDS mortality used to calculate mortality among PWID in the Spectrum Estimates and Projection Package. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS We conducted an update of an earlier systematic review of mortality among PWID, searching specificall...

According to WHO survey in 2010 there are 34 million people who are infected with HIV and attained AIDS. Per year about 1.8 million people dies with AIDS and 2.7 million new people become infected with HIV. AIDS is a secondary immunodeficiency caused by HIV virus that belongs to retroviral family. During AIDS T-cell count in blood falls tremendously below 200 cells ìl ̄ that results to be fatal ...

The aim was to investigate the perception of nursing faculty about their responsibility in teaching practice on HIV/AIDS and if they value the construction of knowledge on the subject of HIV/AIDS focused on parameters aimed to citizenship. This qualitative study had its theoretical framework on Morin Complex Thought. Seven professors from jive institutions of higher education in Sao Paulo parti...

BACKGROUND Reliable population-based data on HIV infection and AIDS mortality in sub-Saharan Africa are scanty, even though that is the region where most of the world's AIDS deaths occur. There is therefore a great need for reliable and valid public health tools for assessing AIDS mortality. OBJECTIVE The aim of this article is to validate the InterVA-4 verbal autopsy (VA) interpretative mode...

This paper presents AIDS incidence and mortality among injecting drug users (IDUs) reached by the AjUDE-Brasil II Project. From a cross-sectional survey, 478 IDUs were interviewed in three Brazilian cities: Porto Alegre, São José do Rio Preto, and Itajaí. The cohort was followed up in the Brazilian surveillance database for AIDS and mortality during 2000 and 2001. AIDS incidence was 1.1 cases p...

The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D) scale is a widely used measure of depressive symptoms, but its psychometric properties have not been adequately evaluated among adults with HIV/AIDS. This study used an item response theory approach (Rasch analysis) to evaluate the CES-D's validity and reliability in relation to key demographic and clinical variables in adults with HIV/A...

2.1 Background Wheelchairs are one of the most important mobility aids for disabled patients and elders. In general, wheelchairs are categorized as manual and powered types. From the viewpoints of movement behaviours, the powered wheelchair can be regarded as a mobile robot (Asai, 2001) if additional environmental sensing components are built and an intelligent motion controller is included. Th...