The newly discovered human flavivirus identified as GB virus-C [1] and hepatitis G virus (HGV) [2], presents intriguing challenges in virology, epidemiology, and blood banking. Its clinical relevance for hepatology, however, appears to have been short-lived. Murthy and colleagues in this issue of Kidney International [3] provide additional evidence that the virus is not associated with clinical...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is global issue, requiring specialized knowledge, attitudes, and skills. The most effective responses are interdisciplinary, involving social work, healthcare, the justice system. While GBV was exacerbated during pandemic, many students faced a reduced availability of practice opportunities to learn how respond GBV. authors describe teaching learning project which ex...

conclusions this study found that gbv-c infection has a high frequency among injecting drug users with hiv/hcv coinfection and hcv mono-infection in yunnan, china. in patients with chronic hepatitis c and hiv coinfection, gbv-c rna was associated with significantly lower alt and ast levels, suggesting a beneficial effect of gbv-c infection on chronic hepatitis c. results gbv-c rna was identifie...

Gender-based violence (GBV) has become a major problem in South Africa, making headlines on regular basis. When the president of Republic Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa, declared lockdown reaction to worldwide pandemic: COVID-19 one expectations was that families would spend more time together harmony. However, number recorded domestic instances increased as result lockdown. Women have historically been s...

BACKGROUND Following decades of conflict, South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011. Prolonged conflict, which included gender-based violence (GBV), exacerbated gender disparities. This study aimed to assess attitudes towards gender inequitable norms related to GBV and to estimate the frequency of GBV in sampled communities of South Sudan. METHODS Applying a community-based participa...

background:accumulative research is in progress to clarify clinical aspects of gbv-c. the possibility of interaction between hcv and gbv-c as well as its consequence on development of liver diseases is the most important clinical aspect which encourages researchers to develop a rapid and cost effective technique for simultaneous detection of both viruses.methods: in this study, a sybr green rea...

13 Humanitarian and public institutions are increasingly relying on data from social media sites to measure 14 public attitude, and provide timely public engagement. Such engagement supports the exploration of 15 public views on important social issues such as gender-based violence (GBV). In this study, we examine 16 Big (Social) Data consisting of nearly fourteen million tweets collected from ...

Bats are reservoirs for a wide range of zoonotic agents including lyssa-, henipah-, SARS-like corona-, Marburg-, Ebola-, and astroviruses. In an effort to survey for the presence of other infectious agents, known and unknown, we screened sera from 16 Pteropus giganteus bats from Faridpur, Bangladesh, using high-throughput pyrosequencing. Sequence analyses indicated the presence of a previously ...

Gender-based violence (GBV) and poor mental health have received particular attention among healthcare professionals, policymakers, researchers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents a review of available literature to understand dynamics GBV its impact in context COVID-19. Confinement control by abusive partners, social economic disruption, restricted access services were identified a...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a major public health and human rights problem worldwide. The extent of this problem in educational institutions has not been explored in Northern Nigeria. Using self administered questionnaires, we determined the prevalence and risk factors for gender-based violence among 300 female university students in Kano, Northern Nigeria. The overall prevalence of gender-b...