Background: Malaria and HIV/AIDS are rampant in subSaharan Africa with prevalence of one reinforcing the other control impactful on other. parasitaemia (MP) is increased HIV-infected individuals while certain drugs used latter cause decline MP but it uncertain how they affect malaria antigenaemia (MA). How bio-social disease characteristics MA this cohort unknown.
 Objectives: To determine...

BACKGROUND In Tanzania information is lacking on the prevalence of HIV infection in surgical patients in tertiary care facilities, in whom there are many points of special interest. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of HIV infection and associated clinical and demographic features among hospitalised surgical patients at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH). SETTING Muhimbili National Hospi...

OBJECTIVES National population-wide HIV prevalence and incidence trends in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are indirectly estimated using HIV prevalence measured among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics (ANC), among other data. We evaluated whether recent HIV prevalence trends among pregnant women are representative of general population trends. DESIGN Serial population-based household surve...

BACKGROUND Most data on HIV prevalence in Malawi come from antenatal clinic (ANC) surveillance and are, therefore, subject to bias. OBJECTIVES HIV prevalence and risk factors were measured using population-based data to assess the accuracy of ANC surveillance and changes in prevalence and risk factors for HIV over time. METHODS HIV prevalence was measured in 1988-1993 and 1998-2001 in commu...

BACKGROUND Cough lasting for > or = 3 weeks (i.e., chronic cough) indicates that a patient has suspected tuberculosis (TB). At the primary health care level, the spectrum of disease that causes chronic cough has not been previously investigated in a setting with a high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. METHODS A total of 544 adults with chronic cough were recruited s...

In 2018, 5.1 per 100,000 persons in the United States assigned females at birth (AFAB) were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV prevention tools, including daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), screening for sexually transmitted infections, treatment, and sexual health counseling, can be implemented into clinical practice to address prevalence of infection among this popul...

prison inmates are among the high risk population for dangerous infections such hiv, hbv, hcv and other contagious diseases. in spit of many data about the prevalence and risk factors for blood born diseases among prisoners in the world, such data are spares from iran. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors for hiv, hbv, hcv and hdv infections among a ...

in most countries, educational programs and condom use is recommended as the most important approaches in controlling hiv infection. we examine the role of different approaches in controlling aids epidemics in our region. we find a high failure rate and probably undesirable effects for condom recommendation in epidemiological scale especially considering the low prevalence of hiv infection in o...

  Background and Objective: Although transfusion therapy has lead to great improvement in longevity for hemophiliacs, but there have been tragic setbacks especially from transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) .HIV was reported to increase the rate of HCV-related liver failure by 4.2 times. In this study, we aimed to determine the seroprevalence of HIV an...