OBJECTIVE To estimate HIV incidence and highlight the characteristics of persons at greatest risk of HIV in the Ukraine capital, Kiev. METHOD Residual samples from newly-diagnosed persons attending the Kiev City AIDS Centre were tested for evidence of recent HIV infection using an avidity assay. Questions on possible risk factors for HIV acquisition and testing history were introduced. All pe...

BACKGROUND Men who have sex with men (MSM) remain the group most at risk of acquiring HIV infection in Britain. HIV prevalence appears to vary widely between MSM from different ethnic minority groups in this country for reasons that are not fully understood. The aim of the MESH project was to examine in detail the sexual health of ethnic minority MSM living in Britain. METHODS/DESIGN The main...

BACKGROUND Malaysia is a multicultural society, predominantly composed of a Muslim majority population, where Islam is influential. Malaysia has a concentrated HIV epidemic amongst high risk groups, such as, Intravenous Drug Users (IVDU), sex workers, transgender women and Men who have sex with Men (MSM). The objective of this study is to understand how Islam shapes HIV prevention strategies in...

Background: Adolescent behavior is current­ly worrying, many adolescents have risky sexual that can lead to pregnancy and HIV. School-based education given provide knowledge, understand­ing prevention of reproductive health, including HIV among adolescents. The purpose this study was estimate the effect school-based on risk in based results previous studies. Subjects Method: This a syste­matic ...

ABSTRACT Introduction: HIV/AIDS is considered one of the great cases public health, but it seen that patients who use antiretroviral therapy (ART) and practice strength training promote a promotion their health. Objectives: Assess impact resistance on cytokines body composition in people living with HIV/AIDS. Methods: Randomized clinical trial, sample consisted 12 patients, 7 from Strength Grou...

In Europe, the incidence of new diagnoses of HIV infection in 2008 was 86.7 cases per one million population, and most cases were attributable to sexual transmission. In Italy, in 2007, the incidence was 60.0 cases per one million population (in the areas in which surveillance exists), and 73.7% of the cases were attributable to sexual transmission. At present, there are an estimated 170,000-18...

Introduction Why Cost-Effectiveness Analysis? Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Basic Theory Assessing Cost-Effectiveness Analyses HIV Prevention Cost-Effectiveness: Findings for Developing Countries Sex Worker Interventions Sexually Transmitted Disease Control Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing Male Condom Promotion Female Condom Promotion Among Women at High Risk of HIV Infection Improving Blood...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the impact of a participatory sexual health promotion program implemented in a poor community and describe how the use of public and private spaces for sex is a factor that exacerbates vulnerability to HIV/Aids. METHODS This ethnographic study was conducted in a Rio de Janeiro shantytown in 2002. Six thousand people live in precarious living conditions in which the lack o...

the world was different when the ottawa charter for health promotion was released 30 years ago. concerns over the environment and what we now call the ‘social determinants of health’ were prominent in 1986. but the acceleration of ecological crises and economic inequalities since then, in a more complex and multi-polar world, pose dramatically new challenges for those committed to the original ...