Background Program goals: To address two prevailing root causes of HIV-related stigma and discrimination in Afghan society: (a) lack of accurate knowledge and information on HIV and (b) misconceptions regarding Islamic principles and cultural beliefs Target audiences: Health workers, youth, prisoners, prison staff members (medical and nonmedical), religious leaders, and media representatives Pr...

discipline, and encouraging recruitment through its own networks of medical representatives and researchers. Whatever the cost of a trial, it should be compared with the cost of the disease being treated and, perhaps, against the cost of non-medical endeavours such as low altitude military aircraft training or unemployment benefit. By any such comparisons multicentre trials are usually extremel...

introduction: hospitals are responsible to respond to legitimate demands for health information release while protecting the confidentiality of patient health records. this study investigated and compared laws and policies of health information disclosure for legal authorities in iran and some selected countries. methods: this descriptive-comparative study included health information disclosure...

A nonsystematic survey of plagiarism, misrepresentation, and fraud in British medical research found that such cases are known to only a few people, that little of the published work is retracted, and that few institutions have any formal mechanism for dealing with instances of medical misconduct. The author believes that the problem is considerably larger than indicated by the survey, particu...

A factual account of some of the forms of co-operation between ministers of religion and doctors may well be helpful. Even though the information given is by no means complete, it may surprise many readers to discover how much is going on in this direction. But they need not feel that there are no gaps left to be filled. The Churches' Council of Healing is perhaps the body with most widespread ...