Approximately 33 million people worldwide are living with HIV infection or AIDS. (1) An estimated 5.2 million people in low and middle-income countries are receiving ART (2). WHO estimates that 1.2 million people started receiving treatment in 2009, bringing the total number of people receiving treatment to 5.2 million as compared to 4 million at the end of 2008 (2). ART has significantly reduc...

With the rapid proliferation and adoption of social media among healthcare professionals and organizations, social media-based HIV/AIDS intervention programs have become increasingly popular. However, the question of the effectiveness of the HIV/AIDS messages disseminated on social media has received scant attention in the literature. The current study applies content analysis to examine the re...

Pharmacists play an important role in caring for individuals with HIV/AIDS. However, stigma healthcare settings can be a deterrent to providing appropriate care. This study assessed psychometric properties and convergent validity of Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale (HPASS) among pharmacy students the United States (U.S.) using Rasch analysis. Students enrolled four U.S. universities w...

Vocal and nonvocal segmentation is an important task in singing voice signal processing. Before identifying the singer it is necessary to locate the singer’s voice in a song. Maximum of the songs start with a piece of instrumental accompaniment known as ‘prelude’ in musical terms after which the singing voice comes into play. Therefore, it is necessary to detect the vocal region in the song in ...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to evaluate the communication problems of elderly before and after using hearing aids. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty hearing aid users and 10 normal hearing control subjects with their relatives were enrolled in the study. Hearing aid users were divided into three subgroups based on the duration of use. Self Assessment of Communication (SAC) and Significant Other Asse...

The rate of comorbidities not related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among HIV-infected patients may be higher than expected. We assessed the incidence of comorbidities not related to HIV infection or AIDS by CD4 cell count and highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) use status in an HIV clinical practice. A total of 2824 patien...