Background and aims: The pandemic of AIDS is a global emergency and one of the biggest challenges in social and individual life. This study aimed to evaluate the survival time of HIV patients and its effective factors. Methods: This historical cohort study was conducted on the individuals infected with HIV in Fars province, south of Iran, during 2006 to 2...

the present study was conducted to determine the association between social support and health-related qol (hrql) for a sample of 120 patients living with hiv/aids in tehran.eighty male and 40 female living with hiv referred to iranian aids research center at imam khomini hospital in tehran, iran in 2011 were randomly selected for assessment. data was collected by means of vaux's social support...

cryptococcus neoformans is the most incriminated fungal pathogen causing meningitis in acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) patients, and is known to constitute a major cause of deaths in aids patients. this study aimed to determine the sero-prevalence and effect of cd4 count on seropositivity for cryptococcus neoformans antigen (crag) in antiretroviral- naïve (art-naïve) aids patients. t...

Background & aim: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an infectious disease caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The awareness of HIV preventive measures and its transmission routes have an important role in controlling the HIV infection in the society. Regarding this, the present study aimed to investigate the awareness and attitudes of the high school students regarding HIV...

background: intestinal protozoa transmitted by food are the most common opportunistic parasites among the hiv+/aids patients. as, there is no report about prevalence of food-borne intestinal parasites in such patients in yazd, so this study was performed to determine the prevalence of intestinal protozoa in the hiv+/aids patients in comparison with hiv- individuals. methods: a case-control stud...

background: our study aimed to determine if alteration of metabolic parameters is associated with the severity of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection, progress to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids), or with the type of antiretroviral treatment (art).materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study among 114 hiv infected patients, we measured hematological and biochemical parame...

abstract introduction: mindfulness plays an important role in improving psychological functions of chronic patients. therefore the aim of this study was investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (mbsr) on symptoms of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress in patients with hiv/ aids. method: this was an experimental design with pre-test, post-test along with foll...

background this quantitative explanatory study was designed to explain the relationship between hiv/aids risk-taking behaviors among african american women and their knowledge surrounding hiv/aids. more specifically, the research considers whether knowledge alone was sufficient to alter african-american women’s risk-taking behaviors regarding hiv/aids. objectives this study was designed to inve...