Facing upto HIV.

Significant challenges facing HIV practitioners.

The care of patients with HIV infection has become possibly the most rewarding and yet most challenging specialty in medicine. The advances over the past 10–15 years have been extraordinary and probably are unrivaled by those for the treatment of any other contemporary disease. However, treatment-related decisions are complex, and the penalties for mistakes are harsh. There are now 24 antiretro...

Discussing the Effects of Poor Health Literacy on Patients Facing HIV: A Narrative Literature Review

Background Scholars describe poor health literacy as a “silent epidemic,” which is challenging the functioning of healthcare systems all over the world. Health literacy is mainly meant as an individual trait which concerns the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information in order to effectively navigate the health system. Low health literate patients perceive poor self-ef...

Facing HIV infection and unintended pregnancy: Rakai, Uganda, 2001-2013.

BACKGROUND Unintended pregnancy is a persistent and global issue with consequences for the health and well-being of mothers and babies. The aim of this paper is to examine unintended pregnancy over time in the context of substantial human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence and increasing access to anti-retro viral therapy (ART). METHOD Data are from the Rakai Community Cohort Study (RCCS...

Transplantation and HIV: facing two threats to life.

Expanding Visibility Polygons by Mirrors upto at least K units

We consider extending visibility polygon (V P ) of a given point q (V P (q)), inside a simple polygon P by converting some edges of P to mirrors. We will show that several variations of the problem of finding mirror-edges to add at least k units of area to V P (q) are NP-complete, or NP-hard. Which k is a given value. We deal with both single and multiple reflecting mirrors, and also specular o...