The possibility that homosexual men with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) had been sexual partners of each other was studied. Of the first 19 homosexual male AIDS patients reported from southern California, names of sexual partners were obtained for 13. Nine of the 13 patients had sexual contact with one or more AIDS patients within five years of the onset of symptoms. Four of the...

Disseminated histoplasmosis is a relatively common AIDS-defining illness, occurring in almost 4% of patients living in endemic areas and it may be the first clinical expression of the HIV infection. A broad spectrum of clinical skin lesions associated with Histoplasma capsulatum infection have been described in AIDS patients, such as erythematous macules, papules, nodules, and pustules. Herpeti...

AI in finance refers to the applications of techniques financial businesses. This area has attracted attention for decades, with both classic and modern applied increasingly broader areas finance, economy, society. In contrast reviews on discussing problems, aspects, opportunities benefited from specific or some new-generation data science (AIDS) progress applying resolving certain this review ...

Randy Shilts has noted (And the bandplayed on, p. 596), by the time President Reagan delivered his first speech on the epidemic, "36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with the disease; 20,849 had died". Some of the essays in the book do attempt to explain aspects of this extraordinary moral climate. Paula A. Treichler's piece on 'AIDS, gender and bio-medical discourse' is powerfully argued, and ...

Introduction The characteristic of HIV/AIDS Romanian epidemic is the high proportion of youth infected in 1988-1990, during their first year of life, when a nosocomial epidemiological accident took place. In Galati (South-East Romania) they were recorded 535 people with HIV/AIDS during 19902003 and 79.5% belonged to the pediatric nosocomial cohort. The mortality was 56.8% and half of the deaths...

BACKGROUND With ageing of the HIV-infected population, long-term exposure to treatment, varying adherence, emerging resistance and complications to therapies, effectiveness of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) needs to be monitored continuously at the population level. The German HIV-1 Seroconverter Cohort is a multi-centre, open, long-term observational cohort including patients wit...

This paper examines men’s sexual behaviour, knowledge and transmission of HIV/AIDS, and resistance to behavioural change in the presence of AIDS in Nigeria. There was a general belief that it was not possible for men to confine themselves to one woman over a lifetime. The frequency of sexual contact with commercial sex workers was high while knowledge of AIDS and its transmission mechanism was ...

a quasi experimental study was made to determine the effect of in-service education on knowledge, attitude and behavior for controlling hospital infections among nurses aids working in teaching hospitals supervised by the ministry of medical sciences and health care services (tehran,1994).   the sample consisted of 75 randomly selected nurses aids who answered the pre and post in service educat...

cholangiopathy and chronic diarrhea are relatively common manifestations of aids. cryptosporidium parvum infection is the most common cause of aids cholangiopathy globally. this is the first report of documented cryptosporidium parvum infection in a patient with aids in iran. the patient was a 39-year-old man from afghanistan with watery diarrhea, crampy periumbilical abdominal pain and 20 kg w...

In Northwestern Spain (NWS), the annual incidence of AIDS diagnoses increased from 1984 (when the first case was diagnosed) until 1996. However, since 1996, this incidence has reduced considerably, including a notable 40% reduction between 1997 and 1998. The Galician Register of AIDS supplies information on the evolution of AIDS pathology in NWS. This report compiles data on patients who were d...