AIDS and the Black Death.

شیوع عفونت‌های هم‌زمان و علل فوت بیماران HIV مثبت در مراحل نهفتگی و ایدز

Background: Infective diseases are one of the most important causes of life quality decrease and death in HIV/AIDS‏ ‏patients. The aim of this study was comparison of viral hepatitis B and C and tuberculosis simultaneous infections Prevalence of positive-HIV patients in incubation and AIDS phases and causes of death in Isfahan Behavioral Consultation Center during ten years (1999 to 200...

تعیین عوامل موثر بر علل مرگ مبتلایان به HIV/AIDS با استفاده از مدل ریسک‎های رقابتی

Background and purpose: Mortality in HIV-positive patients is due to various reasons such as progression to AIDS or co-infection with AIDS and TB or other causes. In survival analysis, competing risk methods are used if there are different reasons for death. The purpose of this article was to identify the factors affecting various causes of death using competing risk methods. Materials and met...

Association of self-reported race with AIDS death in continuous HAART users in a cohort of HIV-infected women in the United States

OBJECTIVE To assess the association of race with clinical outcomes in HIV-positive women on continuous HAART. DESIGN Prospective study that enrolled women from 1994 to 1995 and 2001 to 2002. SETTING Women's Interagency HIV Study, a community-based cohort in five US cities. PARTICIPANTS One thousand, four hundred and seventy-one HIV-positive continuous HAART users. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES ...

Pathogenicity characteristics of Enterococcus faecium from diseased black bears

The death of several black bears at the black bear breeding base in Yunnan Pingbian Daweishan is a matter of concern. Multiple black bears exhibited decreased appetite or unusual waste, and some were soporific or suffered from vomiting and anhelation. In order to ascertain the cause of death, 16S rDNA gene sequencing and phylogenetic analysis was performed on bacteria isolated from tissue sampl...

media’s dominant conception of AIDS as a sex disease, a modern-day Black Death and a manifestation of a social disorder, a function of a decline in the social morality

بیم و امید در زندگی با HIV/AIDS: یک مطالعه پدیدارشناسی

  Background & Aim: The HIV infection is a serious health problem with major effects on various aspects of life. It is essential to understand the lived experiences of patients living with HIV/AIDS. The present study was conducted to investigate affected patients' lived experiences .   Methods & Materials: This qualitative study was carried out using an interpretative, phenomenological appro...