the economic burden of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (hiv/aids) is far greater than its direct medical costs. this study estimated annual indirect costs of the hiv/aids epidemic in islamic republic of iran in 2006-2007 from societal perspective. a patient cost diary in sets of six booklets covering a total of 6 months (from october 2006 and fallowed until march...

in a recent article, gorik ooms has drawn attention to the normative underpinnings of the politics of global health. we claim that ooms is indirectly submitting to a liberal conception of politics by framing the politics of global health as a question of individual morality. drawing on the theoretical works of chantal mouffe, we introduce a conflictual concept of the political as an alternative...

objective: evaluating the status of the eco member countries in relation to hiv/aids (goal 6-a) which includes the main targets for global hiv/aids control. materials and methods: in 2009, we have critically reviewed the countries' mdg reports and extracted the data on each mdg's indicator by year to explore the trend. in the next phase, the main stakeholders, from both governmental and interna...

Human Immunogenetics is one of 46 volumes in a continuing series of books related to specific topics in immunology. This lengthy volume is divided into five major areas of immunogenetics: experimental approaches to immunogenetics, genetics of immunology, the major histocompatibility complex, tumor and viral antigens, and blood and serum components. All chapters are introduced with a basic revie...

Results: Among the 9540 Saudi children surveyed, 1241 (13%) had hearing impairment and 782 (8%) were at risk of hearing impairment. A total of 1560 children received different treatment for the management of their hearing problems. Most of them were treated with systemic administration of drugs (50.83%) followed by surgical treatment (35.57%) for those who did not respond to conservative treatm...