Background: HIV/AIDS patients are mainly hospitalized for HIV-related diseases and opportunistic infections. Thisstudy was performed todetermine thecauses ofhospitalization and its related factors in HIV/AIDS patients in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Hospital during 2009-2012.   Methods: Thisstudy wasa descriptive cross-sectionalstudy . HIV patients admitted to the Imam Khomeini Hospital were includ...

Human immunodeficiency virus infection / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a disease pertained to the human immune system. Given its crucial role in viral replication, HIV-1 protease (HIV-1 PR) is a prime therapeutic target in AIDS therapy. In this regard, the dynamic aspects of ligand-enzyme interactions may indicate an important role of conformational variability in HIV-1 PR in...

results ninety (74.6%) patients were male and 33 (25.4%) were female. they were in the age range of 20-60 years old. fifty four (41.5%) patients had moderate social acceptance and 76 (58.5%) had high social acceptance scores. conclusions among the variables including age, gender, education, occupation, residential area, marital status, family history of hiv/aids, family history of psychiatric d...

human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) is a public health challenge facing both developing and developed nations. although injecting drug use is even the main route of hiv transmission in iran, sexual route is rising gradually. vulnerable women have been considered as important bridging population for driving hiv epidemics. to increase the access to vulnerable women, in 2007, 5 pilot centers were e...

background: diagnostic models are frequently used to assess the role of risk factors on disease complications, and therefore to avoid them. missing data is an issue that challenges the model making. the aim of this study was to develop a diagnostic model to predict death in hiv/ aids patients when missing data exist. methods: hiv patients (n=1460) referred to voluntary consoling and testing cen...

toxoplasma gondii has arisen as an important opportunistic agent especially in the central nervous system and in advanced hiv disease can cause significant morbidity and mortality. this study was carried out to determine the seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis among hiv-positive patients in iran. blood samples were collected from 201 hiv-positive patients and anti-toxoplasma antibodies were detecte...

background : the prevalence of anemia in hiv infected patients has not been well characterized in iran. this study aimed to describe the prevalence of anemia and related factors in hiv positive patients. methods : in a cross-sectional study, anemia prevalence and risk factors of 212 hiv positive patients were assessed, at the behavioral disease consulting center in isfahan. the relationship bet...

Background: The Background of this study was to assess (KABP) regarding HIV/AIDS among pregnant women attending PPTCT program before and after counseling at Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi. Materials and Methods: It was an intervention longitudinal study. Data was collected by interviewing 600 pregnant women attending antenatal clinic during May 2006 to May 2007 using a pre-test and post-tested q...