Psychological Distress and Its Correlates among Newly Diagnosed People Living with HIV in Northwest Ethiopia: Ordinal Logistic Regression Analyses

HIV and syphilis infection among elderly people in northwest Ethiopia.

The prevalence of HIV has been continually increasing both in urban and rural Ethiopia. As yet, there has been no report on the magnitude of the problem in the elderly and rural population. This study assessed the seroprevalence of HIV and syphilis infection among 706 elderly and predominantly rural subjects in Northwest Ethiopia. Socio-demographic information was collected using a structured q...

Ordinal logistic regression.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2008: 34(3) What is it? When a response variable has only two possible values (e.g. recurrence/not), binary logistic regression is commonly used to test or model the association between that response and a number of potential explanatory variables, with each association estimated in terms of an odds ratio (OR). Multinomial logistic regression is an extension...

Intestinal Parasitosis and Their Associated Factors among People Living with HIV at University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest-Ethiopia

Background Most HIV clients die of AIDS related intestinal parasitic infections rather than due to the HIV infection itself. Therefore, this study was aimed at determining the prevalence of intestinal parasite and their associated factors among HIV/AIDS clients at the University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia. Methods Institution based cross sectional study was conducted using systema...

Predictors of HIV status disclosure to sexual partners among People living with HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia

INTRODUCTION Disclosure of HIV positive sero-status to sexual partners, friends or relatives is useful for prevention and care. Identifying factors associated with disclosure is a research priority as a high proportion of people living with HIV/AIDS never disclose in Ethiopia. This study was carried out to assess the magnitude and factors associated of HIV seropositive status disclosure to sexu...

Sero-prevalence of Cytomegalovirus and Toxoplasma Infections among Newly Diagnosed HIV Patients