Provisional surveillance data about acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) for the first 6 months of 1996 indicated a decrease in deaths among persons with AIDS, attributed primarily to the effect of antiretroviral therapies on the survival of persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This report describes a decline in AIDS incidence during 1996 compared with 1995 and the con...

Brazil and South Africa were among the first countries profoundly impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic and had similar rates of HIV infection in the early 1990s. Today, Brazil has less than 1% adult HIV prevalence, implemented treatment and prevention programmes early in the epidemic, and now has exemplary HIV/AIDS programmes. South Africa, by contrast, has HIV prevalence of 18% and was, until rec...

\ This article presents estimates of the almost Ideal demand system (AIDS) for four food groups_and compares these estimates WI~h the AIDS' own linear approximate versIOn and the linear expenditure system The AIDS IS indirectly nonadditive and has several desirable properties, maklng'lt a Viable demand system for analyzing food commodities Its linear approximate versIOn IS a good first-order ap...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus and the cause of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981 in the United States and HIV itself was identified as the cause of this syndrome in 1983.1 Prognosis was initially poor, with severe opportunistic infections or malignancies (‘AIDS-defining conditions’) occurring in 7.7–11.0 years and d...

Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) is an aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and one of the fastest growing tumors in humans. It is an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome- (AIDS-) defining disease and occurs with relatively preserved CD4 cell counts. It rarely affects the orbital region in the setting of AIDS. We report unusual presentation of a fatal case of AIDS-associated BL in a 42-year-old female...

The first case of pediatric AIDS from Zaire was verified on 13 December 1983 (1). This was an 11 year old girl who was admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, Mama Yemo Hospital, with severe weightloss, chronic diarrhea, mycotic dermatitis, oral moniliasis and bronchopneumonia. She had previously received six blood transfusions. Between December 1983 and March 1984 two more cases of symtomati...

INTRODUCTION HIV/AIDS, the most important health problem in Africa, is the leading cause of death on the continent. Ignorance on HIV/AIDS status will hamper treatment and prevention. To investigate the level of HIV/AIDS knowledge among men in a rural area, we performed a questionnaire study on HIV/AIDS knowledge in men living in Banga Bakundu, a rural village in Cameroon. METHODS Forty-eight ...

Human parvovirus B19 replicates in erythrocyte precursors. Usually, there are no apparent hematological manifestations. However, in individuals with high erythrocyte turnover, as in patients with sickle-cell disease and in the fetus, the infection may lead to severe transient aplasia and hydrops fetalis, respectively. In AIDS patients, persistent infection may result in chronic anemia. By contr...

As AIDS activists, advocates, researchers, practitioners, scientists, and policy makers from around the world prepare for the forthcoming 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) which takes place from 20-25 July in Melbourne, Australia, Gregory Pappas, MD, PhD, former Executive Director of the Washington DC's local Host Committee, International AIDS Society (IAS) organizing committee mem...