AIDS: Poland's minister for prophylaxis

AIDS prophylaxis--achievements due to appropriate strategies.

Seafaring as an occupation possesses a special blend of conditions that is strongly influencing the spread of HIV and is making prevention programs difficult to succeed. Actual prevention programs in the shipping industry are not showing success. Social partners are in a unique position to promote prevention efforts, particularly in relation to changing attitudes and behaviours through the prov...

Message from the Minister

cause of mental health by creating a greater understanding of the nature of mental disorders and of the possibilities of prevention and of help for those who suffer from them. A lively and well-informed journal is invaluable for stimulating the interest of the public as a whole as well as helping people already actively engaged in work for mental health, and I wish every success to this new ven...

Mad minister disease?

Nearly ten years ago, a hitherto unknown neurological condition, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), appeared in British cows. It was labelled ‘mad cow disease’, because of the strange combination of fear and shambling gait shown by its victims. As more cases came to light, BSE was found to be similar to scrapie in sheep and it was suggested that cows were infected by eating feedstuffs cont...

Most common prescribing error in postexposure prophylaxis of HIV/AIDS.

www.japi.org © JAPI VOL. 55 MARCH 2007 characteristics, all patients were initially on OHA and diet therapy. All 46 patients in the hyperinsulinemic group had good glycemic control with OHA and were non-insulin requiring for glycemic control. In the nonhyperinsulinemic group 6 patients (11%) became insulin requiring after initial therapy with OHA. To summarize, three clinically and biochemicall...

The ideal minister of health.