The Indian Ocean provides a unique opportunity to curb the HIV epidemic in its nascent phase through strengthening STI control programmes. Making effective and appropriate health services available should be regarded as the first priority for STI control in the region and, whenever possible, core groups should be identified and targeted to interrupt transmission within such networks.

evaluation of voice quality parameters of esophageal speech in different neoglottis forms after total laryngectomy. methods: presentation of voice analysis of 20 patients, who underwent total laryngectomy. the success of acquiring this technique was estimated by means of a voice analyzing program (pitch, sound-holding, loudness, spectrogram), and by the intelligibility via the telephone. shape ...

Decosas and Padian report, but do not discuss, a noteworthy disassociation in epidemic trajectory between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Zimbabwe. They cite estimates that, between 1990 and 1999, HIV prevalence increased linearly from 9% to 25%, while STI syndrome reports declined substantially, from 963 436 cases to 727 788. The authors not only...

Decosas and Padian report, but do not discuss, a noteworthy disassociation in epidemic trajectory between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Zimbabwe. They cite estimates that, between 1990 and 1999, HIV prevalence increased linearly from 9% to 25%, while STI syndrome reports declined substantially, from 963 436 cases to 727 788. The authors not only...

The transmission TrG(v) of a vertex v connected graph G is the sum distances between and all other vertices in G. stepwise irregular (STI) if |TrG(u) ? TrG(v)| = 1 holds for each edge uv E(G). In this paper, extremal results on STI graphs with respect to size different metric properties are proved. Two families appear cases, balanced complete bipartite odd order so called hatted cycles.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of HIV, the correlates of HIV knowledge, positive attitudes towards HIV-infected persons (PosAttitude-HIV) and specific sexually transmitted infections (STI) related symptoms (Spe-STI-Sym) among mobile Khmer Vietnamese. Methods: Information about socio-demographic and behavioural characteristics, STI history, and HIV knowledge and attitudes were collected ...

Control of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is feasible, leads to improved sexual and reproductive health and contributes to preventing HIV transmission. The most advanced HIV epidemics have developed under conditions of poor STI control, particularly where ulcerative STIs were prevalent. Several countries that have successfully controlled STIs have documented stabilization or reversal of...

HIV seroadaptive behaviours may have contributed to greater sexually transmitted infection (STI) transmission in HIV-positive men who have sex with men(MSM) and to the global increase in STIs. Using multiple national surveillance data sources and population survey data, we estimated the risk of STIs in HIV-positive MSM and assessed whether transmission in HIV-positive MSM has contributed to rec...

Vector quantisation (VQ) is a method widely used in low bit-rate coding and transmission of speech signals. Unfortunately, a single bit error in the transmitted index, due to noise in the transmission channel, could degrade perceived speech quality at the receiver quite dramatically, as the reference vector retrieved by the corrupted index may di er greatly from the vector corresponding to the ...