PROBLEM As national antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes scale-up, it is essential that information is complete, timely and accurate for site monitoring and national planning. The accuracy and completeness of reports independently compiled by ART facilities, however, is often not known. APPROACH This study assessed the quality of quarterly aggregate summary data for April to June 2006 co...

BACKGROUND According to World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, which have also been adopted by the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), India, Efavirenz-based Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) is better in Human-Immunodeficiency-Virus (HIV)-infected patients who are also being treated with Rifampicin-based Anti-Tuberculous Therapy (ATT). However, Efavirenz is much more expensive. We hypo...

The paper first discusses early work that predated internet art and that was concerned with active audience participation in electronic art and describes the path of development of the first author’s artworks that have looked at human to human communication through electronic (computer) systems from 1970 until today. The fundamental concept has been to make artworks that explore human communica...

BACKGROUND In India, TB and HIV co-infection remains as a serious public health problem. From 2006 onwards, the intensified TB-HIV collaborative activities are being jointly implemented by National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) and Revised National TB Control programme (RNTCP) at high HIV burden states. OBJECTIVES To determine (a) the predictors of outcome among a cohort of HIV-TB co-infected...

today's focus on marketing practices and activities of art-cultural business for growth and development of this business is of paramount importance. because the current (entrepreneurial) marketing model do not explain the marketing activities of such a business. this paper aims to provide a systematic and conceptual model of entrepreneurial marketing activities in the artistic and cultural...

objective: to verify the hypothesis that the incidence of chromosomal abnormalities increases in babies conceived by different assisted reproduction procedures. the availability of the umbilical cord blood encouraged us to study this hypothesis via this method. materials and methods: this is a descriptive study, umbilical cord blood samples of assisted reproductive technology (art) children wer...

background: approximately one percent of current live births of the world are conceived via assisted reproductive technologies (art). objective:  the purpose of this study was to compare the developmental status of children born through assisted and natural conceptions at the age of five years. materials and methods:  in a retrospective cohort study, developmental status of 5 years old children...

drug abuse in pregnancy is not uncommon, and the use of illicit opioids during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes. the aim of the study was to assess neonatal outcome of pregnancy with maternal addiction. materials and methods:   in this cohort study we assessed 100 pregnant women 15 -49 years old. to identify drug exposure was used self- questionnaire (self-repo...

Background: The aims were to determine the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound sonography in detecting major structural anomalies on all patients who conceived during a year of infertility treatment [assisted reproductive technology (ART) or non-ART treatments] at the Royan Institute, and to study the outcome of cases with nuchal translucency (NT) ≥ 95th centile in the first trimester of pregnanc...

32 33 Background: To gain a successful treatment outcome, the Anti-Retro Viral Therapy (ART)