First report on US AIDS behaviour

US to tackle AIDS on the border.

The US Health and Human Services Department plans to spend $11 million over the next 5 years in demonstration projects designed to provide care for people with AIDS who live along the US-Mexico border. The grant, announced by US Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala on World AIDS Day, December 1, will first be awarded to 4 projects in each of the 4 border states, Arizona, Califor...

Gallbladder adenocarcinoma: first report in a patient with AIDS.

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...

Report of the First Brazilian Symposium on Basic Research in HIV/AIDS.

HIV-1 from a seropositive Brazilian individual was achieved in May 1987. During this time, a lot of effort was oriented towards solving emergent public health needs such as the development of easy, quick and cheap screening and confirmatory assays for the serological diagnosis. The importance of several institutions in financing reasearch projects, e.g. Fundação Banco do Brasil, National Resear...

First Them, Then Us

The Effects of Evidence Based Medical Education on Learning of First Aids

Background: Teaching of theoretical and practical first aids are  important courses for medical sciences students. If these courses are  taught with Evidence Based Medicine(EBM), they will be learned better by students. The objective of this study  was the  determination of the  effect of evidence based medical education on learning of first aids. Methods: This study had been performed inthe pl...