OBJECTIVE--To characterise the natural history of sexually transmitted HIV-I infection in homosexual and bisexual men. DESIGN--Cohort study. SETTING--San Francisco municipal sexually transmitted disease clinic. PATIENTS--Cohort included 6705 homosexual and bisexual men originally recruited from 1978 to 1980 for studies of sexually transmitted hepatitis B. This analysis is of 489 cohort members ...

BACKGROUND Sustainability is the holy grail of many development projects, yet there is limited evidence about strategies that effectively support transition of programs from donor funding to national governments. The first phase of Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2003-2009), aimed to demonstrate an HIV/AIDS prevention program at scale, prima...

in endemic regions visceral leishmaniasis is one of the most common opportunistic infections in hiv positive patients. simultaneous infection with leishmania and hiv has been reported in some countries but there's no such report from iran in medical literature. patient was a 27-year-old man admitted with chief complaints of intermittent abdominal pain, anorexia and vomiting since 6 months ago. ...

in a study to determine the influence of sexual behaviour to hiv contamination, in 22 patients infected with aids in iran, this survey was conducted. the subjects were 21 male and one female. one of the male patients was from uganda, another was an intravenous drug addict, and one patient has been abroad for sometime. one of the patients had been abroad and received blood there, and other patie...

unfortunately, we do not know how many perinatally (human immunodeficiency virus) hiv-infected pepole are living in contries today, while knowing these informations is necessary. unaids reports that there are 3.4 million children under 15 years of age with hiv and 2 million adolescents between 10 and 19 years of age. although the vast majority of children were perinatally infected, older childr...

In this paper we identify incentives for the use of compater-aids in modelling and design of physical systems and discuss possible solutions.

FormED – a FORMal Environment for Debugging is proposed. FormED aids design debugging by computation of fault candidates, generation of high quality counterexamples and visualization of results.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). In Indonesia, number people infected with HIV reaches 50,282 while AIDS 7,036. East Java province highest infection cases in third position. Jember Regency fifth largest district/city reporting Province. Knowledge closely related to attitude. Good knowledge will affect a positive attitude, and vice ve...

OBJECTIVE To study pre-AIDS mortality and its association with HIV disease progression in different exposure groups with known intervals of HIV seroconversion. DESIGN AND METHODS The type and rate of pre-AIDS deaths were assessed in 111 HIV-infected haemophilic men followed in London, and 118 injecting drug users and 158 homosexual men followed in Amsterdam. In each group, the association bet...