tuberculosis (tb) is one of the most important aids associated infectious diseases worldwide. it is a leading cause of illness and death among people with hiv/aids in resource-poor areas of the world. the annual incidence of tb among indigenous iranians stands at 14 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. this study aimed to identify mycobacterium infection among iranian hiv positive patients. two sputu...

abstract background: since nursing and midwifery students avoid taking care of the diseased patients and taking care of the patients with aids can be influenced by their level of knowledge, the present study aimed to define the association between students’ knowledge and their tendency to take care of hiv patients. materials and methods: this is a descriptive analytical study conducted on 210 s...

background: acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) is a fatal viral disease which can affect the patient’s immune system and render the patient susceptible to opportunistic infections. in recent years, the number of women with hiv acquired through sexual transmission has increased. therefore, due to the importance of quality of life (qol) among these women and the impact of violence and soc...

background: availability of antiretroviral therapies has transformed aids into a manageable chronic condition and im­proved well-being among people living with hiv/aids (pha) in developed countries. in developing countries however, such transformations are yet to occur due to socio-economic, systemic and environmental constraint. this study examined the impact of social, economic, psychological...

this is a field study, done with the purpose of detecting awareness rate of midwifery students about the prenatal, intrapartal, post partal care of women suffering from aids in the nursing and midwifery faculties in medical university science ministry of heath and medical teaching in tehran city (iran, 1993).   in this research multi stage random sampling method was used, and 124 of third and f...

background: identification of disease risk factors can help in the prevention of diseases. in assessing the predictive value of continuous variables, a routine procedure is to categorize the factors. this yield to inability to detect non‑linear relationship, if exist. multivariate fractional polynomial (mfp) modeling is a flexible method to reveal non‑linear associations. we aim to demonstrate ...

background: toxoplasmosis in immunocompetent people is generally asympto­matic but in immunocompromised patients including hiv/aids, can­cer pa­tients, and organ transplant recipients, etc. it can lead to serious pathological problems. the objective of current study was to determine the seroprevalence of t. gondii igg and igm antibodies in hiv/aids patients using elisa technique in mazanda­ran ...

background & aim: aids is one of the major public health challenges all over the world. perceived risk is a significant predictor of high-risk behaviors related to aids. women constitute more than half of the hiv patients, and the rate of female sex workers with aids is more than the rest of female population. therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate aids risk perception and its related f...

the main objective of this study is to find the prevalence, level of knowledge, and mode of transmission of reproductive tract infection (rti)/sexually transmitted infection (sti) among evermarried females in uttar pradesh. to study the various socio-economic and demographic factors responsible for rti/sti among married females. this study is based on data extracted from district level health s...