OBJECTIVES To monitor the success of an inpatient palliative care unit combining private and state patients, and accessible to patients with cancer and AIDS. DESIGN An observational study was conducted of patients admitted to the unit in the first 3 months following opening of the ward (1 March - 31 May 2006). METHODS Data were collected on all patients admitted to the ward to establish pat...

A case of renal icterohemorrhagic leptospirosis involving a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is reported. Despite the low levels of CD4+ T lymphocytes, the clinical course of leptospirosis was similar to that observed in non-immunodepressed patients, and no worsening of AIDS occurred due to the infection by the spirochete. Serologic conversion was observed in the microscop...

Although a wide spectrum of AIDS-related cholangiopathy has been reported periodically, malignant tumours, commonly seen in patients with AIDS, are very rare in the gallbladder, with only handful of reports in the literature: Kaposi’s sarcoma, and malignant lymphoma. 2 We describe the first case of gallbladder adenocarcinoma in a patient with AIDS. A 36-year-old man, HIV seropositive at 24, wit...

Plasmablastic lymphoma is a non-Hodgkin lymphoma characterized by its plasmacytic differentiation and predilection for the oral cavity. It is among the lymphomas most commonly associated with AIDS. This report details a case of a HIV-positive patient with a 1-month history of an exophytic mass in the gingival area of the upper left quadrant. The diagnosis of plasmablastic lymphoma was made base...

OBJECTIVES To assess participants' knowledge about HIV/AIDS and to identify the factors associated with HIV/AIDS in Sudan. METHODS Observational cross-sectional study carried out at Omdurman National Voluntary Counseling and Testing Centre, Sudan covered 870 participants. Sociodemographic data as well as information related to sexual behavior were collected. RESULTS Most of the respondents ...

This is the first of a two-part unit on HIV and Aids. This part reviews the global epidemiology of the HIV/Aids pandemic.

This is the second in a series looking back at the first two decades of TAG’s work to speed up AIDS research. In Part I: TAG’s early campaigns to reform the National Institutes of Health (NIH) AIDS research, boost the federal budget, and revitalize HIV basic science research. Here we look at the clinical science of AIDS before the discovery of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in 199...

The AIDS epidemic is a global phenomenon with significant social, economic, demographic, legislative and political implications, and crucial practical and ethical concerns for civil rights and public health. An overview of AIDS in the world is presented, based on the insight provided by the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention and the First International Confere...

We present a study about the use of current electronic travel aids to help blind people navigate through familiar and unfamiliar environments. We also discuss the main strengths and weaknesses of electronic travel aids and propose guidelines to design and use them adequately. We provide a proposal to develop and use traveling aids. As a result, this can be a first step towards defining major as...

The incidence for AIDS per hundred thousand is several times higher in the United States than in the rest of the First World. Earlier work by Thompson (1984, 1989a, b, 1990, 1998) indicated that a relatively small proportion of gay males frequenting the bathhouses in the United States, drove AIDS over the epidemiological threshold in the U.S. It is shown that the rate of growth of AIDS is essen...