Objectives: To assess the prevalence and risk factors for HBV, HCV and HTLV-I co infection in the Iranian HIV positive Injecting Drug Users (IDU) patients admitted in hospital. Methodology: Analyses were based on 154 male IDU patients admitted in Infectious disease ward of Razi Hospital, Ahwaz, Iran, from April 2001 to March 2003. All of them had been tested for HIV infection (Elisa-antibody &W...

Group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) have demonstrated roles in promoting antibacterial immunity, maintaining epithelial barrier function, and supporting tissue repair. ILC3 alterations are associated with chronic inflammation and inflammatory disease; however, the characteristics and relevant regulatory mechanisms of this cell population in HIV-1 infection are poorly understood due in part to...

We report the case of a patient who presented with septic shock and multiorgan failure. Methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> <i>Talaromyces marneffei</i> were cultured from his blood. He was treated course vancomycin along amphotericin. Further work-up revealed him to be HIV positive an absolute CD4 count 14 cells/μL. Despite aggressive medical support, he ...

BACKGROUND The role of opportunistic infections in accelerating disease progression in HIV-positive individuals, leading to quick death, is still receiving serious attention. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of Isospora belli infections in HIV-positive patients in Edo State, Nigeria between August 2007 and March 2008. METHODS A total of 268 samples from HIV-positive...

A letter I opened eight years ago profoundly changed my life, transforming me from professional journalist—an interviewer—into media interviewee, from private person to public activist. The letter, from a health insurance company to which I had applied for new medical coverage, announced that I had been rejected because of a “significant blood abnormality” revealed in the routine test required ...

Re: Resubmission of the Revised Paper Titled " Evaluation of simple rapid HIV assays and development of national rapid HIV test algorithms in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania " for Publication I, Said Aboud, the author of the paper titled " Evaluation of simple rapid HIV assays and development of national rapid HIV test algorithms in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania " have incorporated the following formatting c...

The number of sexual transmission of HIV is increasing globally. Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) issues and HIV/AIDS related problems are rooted in common grounds such as poverty, gender inequality, and social exclusion. As a result, international health organizations have suggested the integration of SRH services with HIV/AIDS services as a strategy to control HIV and to improve people’s ...

Objective: HIV-1 has been a killer disease since two decades ago, while a potential cure has not yet discovered due to the fast mutations of the HIV1 enzymes,i.e reverse transcriptase, integrase, and protease. Apart of HIV-1, malaria has been the biggest cause of death in human and it is mostly found in the East part of Indonesia. There are some enzymes in the food vacuole of Plasmodium falcipa...

Recent studies have shown that two CAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP) sitesare critically important for efŽcient human immunodeŽciencyvirus (HIV) type 1 (HIV-1) replication within cells of the monocyte/macrophage lineage, a primary cell type infected by HIV-1 and a potentially important vehicle for transport of virus to the central nervous system (CNS). Given the relevance of HIV-1 LTR seque...