BACKGROUND HIV-, HCV- and HIV/HCV co-infections among drug users have become a rapidly emerging global public health problem. In order to constrain the dual epidemics of HIV/AIDS and drug use, China has adopted a methadone maintenance treatment program (MMTP) since 2004. Studies of the geographic heterogeneity of HIV and HCV infections at a local scale are sparse, which has critical implication...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to assess whether a standard intervention package of cardiovascular disease (CVD) care was being delivered effectively, and if it was associated with improved lifestyle and biomedical indicators. METHODS In rural China, we implemented a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial for 12 months, randomized at the township hospital level, and compared with usual care...

OBJECTIVE To explore the caretakers' care-seeking pattern and its determinants among children under 36 months old with diarrhea in rural western China. METHODS The data of 14112 households was collected in 45 counties of 10 provinces of western China from June to August 2005. A generalized estimated equation (GEE) linear model was used to identify the determinants of the care-seeking. RESUL...

1 Department of Animal Science, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. 2 Taitung Animal Propagation Station, Livestock Research Institute (LRI), Council of Agriculture (COA). No. 30, 27 Line, Binlang Vil., Beinan Township, Taitung County 95445, Taiwan. 3 Department of Animal Science, Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. 4 Animal Products Processing Division, LRI, COA, Tainan...

1 Department of Electronic Engineering and Green Technology Research Center, Chang-Gung University, No. 259, Winhwa 1st Road, Gueisan, Taoyuan County, Township 333, Taiwan 2Department of Computer & Communication, Army Accident, No. 750, Londong Road, Taoyuan County, Jungli City 320, Taiwan 3Department of Physics, Central Florida University, 4000 Central Florida Blvd/Building 121 PS 430 Orlando,...

This paper was conducted to describe some of the circumstances that increases the risk factors fornon-communicable diseases amongst the previously disadvantaged South African population. The work presented here is based on an action research in an urban black township of Cape Town. The goal was to develop a NonCommunicable Disease model, which can be used to benefit an urban township commun...

Parasitic infection during pregnancy is a major cause of anaemia in Africa. Social and environmental risk factors for the transmission of human parasites vary according to geographical location. Knowledge of the geographical distribution of parasitic helminths and malaria parasites is key to any interventional programme. Thus, in August-November 2005, a hospital-based study was conducted on 300...

OBJECTIVES In order to improve the quality of services at village clinics (VCs), which are important primary care service providers in rural China, the Chinese government has encouraged the township hospitals to own and manage VCs. There are currently three models of ownership and management of VCs: township hospital-owned and -managed (HVC), village committee-owned and -managed (VVC), and priv...