Understanding the Scourge of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Is HIV/AIDS epidemic outcome of poverty in sub-saharan Africa?

Undisputable fact is that 14000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa are being infected daily with HIV and 11000 are dying every day due to HIV/AIDS related illnesses. In this region more than 60% of the people live below UN poverty line of US$ 1 per day. Some studies have shown that poverty and HIV infection are in correlation, but none has shown whether HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa is an outcome of...

Challenges and Proposed Actions for HIV/AIDS Control among Children in Iran

It is estimated globally 3.2 million children were living with HIV in 2014, that mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the majority of them infected to HIV from their mothers during pregnancy, during delivery or breastfeeding (1). Antiretroviral therapy (ART) use during and after pregnancy is essential for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV (2).  In the absence of any in...

The scourge of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa -- a rheumatological perspective.

HIV prevention and treatment research in sub-Saharan Africa: where are the adolescents?

Recurrent panniculitis in a patient receiving protease inhibitor therapy for human immu-nodeficiency virus infection. Some two decades into the, predominantly heterosexual, HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, we have yet to challenge the epidemic in a concerted fashion in perhaps its most pertinent population. Not only has little intervention research been carried out on adolescents in sub-Saha...

Silence sexual and reproductive health discussions and we fuel the rise of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

In the mid 1990s, the HIV epidemic was initially impacting South Africa. Fear, stigma and denial surrounding sexual practices undermined treatment access and prevention initiatives. Significant strides have been made in reducing the HIV epidemic in South Africa and other areas in sub-Saharan Africa through effective programming and funding of prevention programs. Reinstatement of the Mexico Cit...