Syndemics of HIV with mental illness and other noncommunicable diseases

A Tale of Two Diseases: Mental Illness and HIV/AIDS.

HIV and noncommunicable diseases: the Asian perspective.

Asia is seeing a rise in noncommunicable diseases in their general population and among people living with HIV. Many Asians have low body weight, which can lead to higher plasma concentrations of antiretrovirals and, as a result, their toxicities. Examples are metabolic complications from protease inhibitors, chronic kidney disease from tenofovir, and hepatotoxicity from nevirapine. Asia has no...

Mental illness and HIV

NCHSR is partially funded by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing. © 2010 National Centre in HIV Social Research, The University of New South Wales Photographs on pages 1, 3 and 4 copyright iStockphoto What we see depends mainly on what we look for, or so John Lubbock (1834– 1913), a noted anthropologist, once said. In the field of HIV research and care what we don’t look for, we miss...

HIV status among women with mental illness

Results The age of the subjects varied from 19 34, with the median 25 yrs. They were wandering on the road & were sexually exploited for their basic needs. Cheap & easy availability, sexual perversion, substance abuse, Lack of family support, inability to stress condom usage to partners leads to dissemination of HIV in the society. HIV was positive (64%) among them & CD4 count was low as much a...

Noncommunicable diseases.

From the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (D.J.H.); the Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi (K.S.R.); and the World Heart Federation, Geneva (K.S.R.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Hunter at the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115, or at [email protected]...