Doctors with AIDS.

Assessing patient satisfaction with Sudanese doctors

Dear editor Patients’ satisfaction has long been consideredas an important factor when gauging healthoutcome and quality of care in both developedand developing countries (1) and constitutes asubstantial indicator of the health care quality(2). Researches have shown that satisfiedpatients are more likely to develop a goodrelationship with the health system, leading toimproving compliance, conti...

Stigmatization of patients with HIV/AIDS among doctors and nurses in Belize.

This study, conducted from August to September 2007, utilized a population-based survey to investigate stigmatizing attitudes and acts of discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients among doctors and nurses working in public hospitals in Belize. A total of 230 subjects (81.0%) completed the survey. The mean age was 36.8 years; 75% were women; 61% were nurses; 74% were Belizean. Stigmatization was ...

Isoniazid Prevention Treatment in People With AIDS

این مقاله قصد دارد به ارائه دهندگان مراقبت بهداشتی در مورد استفاده از درمان پیشگیری کننده ایزونیازید در افراد مبتلا به عفونت ویروسی نقص ایمنی انسانی (HIV) کمک نماید. در حال حاضر اطلاعات کافی جهت توصیه اجرای درمان پیشگیری کننده سل، برای افراد مبتلا به هر دو عفونت در سری برنامه های جهانی وجود ندارد و باید منتظر اطلاعات دقیق تری بر تاثیر درمان پیشگیری کننده و بخصوص صرفه اقتصادی و راحتی مصرف آن بود...

AIDS Epidemic Modeling With Different Demographic Structures

The most urgent public health problem today is to devise effective strategies to minimize the destruction caused by the AIDS epidemic. Mathematical models based on the underlying transmission mechanisms of the AIDS virus can help the medical/scientific community understand and anticipate its spread in different populations and evaluate the potential effectiveness of different approaches for bri...

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