Background: HIV infected persons are also at risk for Infection with other pathogens, like Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Hepatitis C virus (HCV). One of the main steps in the planning of treatment and prevention is the study of the HIV positive population who have HBV and/or HCV infection. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of HIV and Hepatitis B and C dual infection in ...

Introduction The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that infects cells of the immune system, destroying or impairing their function. As the infection progresses, the immune system becomes weaker, and the person becomes more susceptible to infections. The most advanced stage of HIV infection is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The present study aimed to evaluate the eff...

Background: HIV/AIDS control are one of the most important goals of the health systems. The aim of this study was to determine how HIV/AIDS control was initiated among policy makers’ agenda setting in Iran.   Methods: A qualitative research (semi-structured interview) was conducted using Kingdon’s framework (problem, policy and politics streams, and policy windows and policy...

Background The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has recently set the ambitious “90-90-90 target” of having 90% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) know their status, receive antiretroviral therapy (ART), and achieve viral suppression by 2020. This ambitious new goal is occurring in a context of global “scale-down” following nearly a decade of heightened investment in HIV ...

O vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) é o causador Síndrome Imunodeficiência Adquirida (AIDS), devido a sua alta incidência, representa um problema de saúde pública. Estudos têm destacado maior vulnerabilidade dos povos indígenas quanto transmissão do HIV, onde as baixas condições vida, menor nível socioeconômico, educacional, exclusão social e dificuldades serviços públicos saúde, são fator...

Early diagnosis of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in infants provides a critical opportunity to strengthen follow-up HIV- exposed children using dried blood spots and assure early access antiretroviral treatment for infected children. This study aimed determine the prevalence HVI-1 infection born HIV-seropositive mothers. infant HIV sub-type I was carried out on 286 babies HIV-I seropositiv...

conclusion upon these results, immigration and family deprivation are potent risk factors for occurrence of infection results among 274 patients with hiv infection/aids (224 male and 50 female) in sistan and baluchestan province in southeast of iran, 65 cases (41 male, 24 female) were from saravan (a city in sistan and baluchestan). out of 41 men with hiv/aids in saravan, 21 cases had a history...