INTRODUCTION Thus far, the reasons for increasing HIV prevalence in northern and eastern Indian states are unknown. We investigated the role of male out-migration in the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection through a case-control study in rural India. METHODS Currently married men and women were recruited from HIV testing and treatment centers across seven selected districts...

A unique feature of migration in China is its two-track system, one consisting of permanent migration and temporary migration. This article examines whether and how hukou reforms and the maturation of migration streams since the 1980s have changed the two-track system. Using data on interprovincial migration from the 1990 and 2000 censuses, our empirical analysis focuses on the differentials be...

Afghan immigration, which has continued uninterruptedly for the last half century, become an integral part of country's historical identity. Political and economic instability been going on nearly fifty years, foreign intervention drought famine caused by climate change, are most important factors triggering migration. The unending war in Afghanistan more than forty years have seriously affecte...

BACKGROUND The conditions of children and adolescents with migration background receiving emergency psychiatric care in Europe are not well known. Migrants usually attend regular psychiatric care less frequently than the autochthonous population. We therefore speculated that, being undertreated, they would be overrepresented among psychiatric emergency care patients. METHODS We retrospectivel...