although the hiv pandemic is witnessing a decline in the number of new infections in most regions of the world, the middle east and north africa (mena) has a rapidly growing hiv problem. while generating hiv data has been consistently increasing since 2005, mena’s contribution to the global hiv literature is just over 1% and the existing evidence often falls behind the academic standards. sever...

Background: The objective of this study was to analyse the clinical characteristics HIV+ and HIV- tuberculosis patients followed treated at Oyem Regional Hospital Centre (ORHC).
 Materials Methods: During conducted between January 2019 December 2021, data collection based on exploitation medical records registers results from analysis laboratory regional hospital Oyem, in which there were ...

Alterações cognitivas associadas ao HIV são relativamente comuns. Assim, o diagnóstico precoce do torna-se importante para a prevenção comprometimento cognitivo que, por sua vez, interfere na qualidade de vida dos indivíduos. O objetivo foi avaliar desempenho indivíduos infectados pelo HIV/Aids. Trata-se um estudo transversal. Participaram adultos com 50 anos ou mais, HIV/Aids, assistidos no Se...

introduction: burden of hiv and aids is considerably different among regions and countries of the world. the aim of this study was to assess of inequality in the prevalence of hiv, according to human development index among countries of the world.methods: in this study the desired outcome was prevalence of hiv, which estimated in 100 countries in 2012. the annual report of unaids was used for p...

breaking bad news is one of the most burdensome tasks physicians face in their everyday practice. it becomes even more challenging in the context of hiv + patients because of stigma and discrimination. the aim of the current study is to evaluate the quality of giving hiv seroconversion news according to spikes protocol. numbers of 154 consecutive hiv + patients from imam khomeini hospital testi...

background & aim: knowledge and attitude of the nurses and midwives towards hiv/aids patients could affect the quality of care provision. thus, this study aimed to determine the relationship between knowledge, attitude, and tendency of nurses and midwives towards caring for hiv/aids patients. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 303 nurses and midwives at healthcare centers, aff...

Currently, the laboratory diagnostic tests available for HIV-1 viral infection are mainly based on serological testing which relies enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) blood HIV antigen detection and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) specific RNA sequence identification. However, these methods expensive time-consuming, suffer from false positive and/or negative resu...

HIV is considered a public health problem in the world, especially Brazil, where about 194,000 people have been infected with virus last 10 years country. In addition to physical problems that infection imposes on HIV-positive individuals, social and institutional end up being major barrier lives of these such as stigma prejudice, which segregate exclude them from life. Objective: make critical...

background : drug injection is one of the most significant risk factors for viral hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection. the present study was performed to evaluate the frequency of hepatitis b (hbv) and hiv infection in idus and to identify the risk factors of these infections in this group in a central city of iran, shahre-kord. methods : this study was conducted in 2004 ...