BACKGROUND In the wake of a national economic downturn, the state of California, in 2009-2010, implemented budget cuts that eliminated state funding of HIV prevention and testing. To mitigate the effect of these cuts remaining federal funds were redirected. This analysis estimates the impact of these budget cuts and reallocation of resources on HIV transmission and associated HIV treatment cost...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had an annual budget of approximately $327 million to fund health departments and community-based organizations for core HIV testing and prevention programs domestically between 2001 and 2006. Annual HIV incidence has been relatively stable since the year 2000 and was estimated at 48,600 cases in 2006 and 48,100 in 2009. Using estimates on HI...

OBJECTIVE We compared the impact and costs of HIV prevention strategies focusing on youth (15-24 year-old persons) versus on adults (15+ year-old persons), in a high-HIV burden context of a large generalized epidemic. DESIGN Compartmental age-structured mathematical model of HIV transmission in Nyanza, Kenya. INTERVENTIONS The interventions focused on youth were high coverage HIV testing (8...

Background: HIV/AIDS as a global pandemic forced the nursing student to have appropriate knowledge and attitudes toward caring for people living with (PLWHA). 
 Purpose: This study aims explore level of knowledge, attitudes, willingness pre-clinical students provide care PLWHA.
 Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional is conducted. total 185 enrolled in Bachelor Science Nursing (BSN), ...

BACKGROUND To examine the extent to which state adoption of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2006 revisions to adult and adolescent HIV testing guidelines is associated with availability of other important prevention and medical services. We hypothesized that in states where the pretest counseling requirement for HIV testing was dropped from state legislation, substance use ...

Abstrak Lembaga Pemasyarakatan merupakan suatu lembaga yang berada di bawah naungan Kementerian Hukum dan Hak Asasi Manusia. Pada Yogyakarta terdapat napi dengan kasus HIV/AIDS. Bagi lainnya tidak terkena HIV AIDS belum mengenal bagaimana pencegahan terhadap penyakit tersebut sehingga penting adanya metode Video Edukasi dalam Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah pengaruh program...

Background & aim: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an infectious disease caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The awareness of HIV preventive measures and its transmission routes have an important role in controlling the HIV infection in the society. Regarding this, the present study aimed to investigate the awareness and attitudes of the high school students regarding HIV...

In the past 25 years, the field of HIV prevention research has been transformed repeatedly. Today, effective HIV prevention requires a combination of behavioral, biomedical, and structural intervention strategies. Risk of transmitting or acquiring HIV is reduced by consistent male- and female-condom use, reductions in concurrent and/or sequential sexual and needle-sharing partners, male circumc...

Understanding the HIV care experience, if any, among persons dying from HIV are crucial for identifying gaps in HIV care and providing direction for programs to improve, but direct population-wide data on this are sparse in high-prevalence HIV epidemic settings. In this report, we consult empirical data and mathematical modelling to estimate and project the relationship of the HIV care experien...

BACKGROUND Although HIV program evaluations focusing on mortality on ART provide important evidence on treatment effectiveness, they do not asses overall HIV program performance because they exclude patients who are eligible but not started on ART for whatever reason. The objective of this study was to measure mortality that occurs both pre-ART and during ART among HIV-positive children enrolle...