AIDS (acquired immune deficient syndrome) is a deadly human viral infectious disease caused by HIV (human immune-deficient virus) infection. Almost every AIDS patient losses his/her life before mid 1990s. Antiviral drug cocktails-high active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) has been invented for almost all HIV infection patient treatments. Yet, this type of HIV therapeutics is incurable. HIV/AID...

OBJECTIVE The purpose was to assess factors potentially affecting care pharmacists provide to HIV/AIDS patients including comfort level, confidence, education, experience, professional competence, continuity of care and patient-provider relationship between pharmacists and HIV-infected patients. METHODS A 24-item questionnaire assessed the constructs of this study. Surveys were distributed fr...

Thrombotic microangiopathies have been recently a recognizable presentation of patients infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Most those who present similarly noted to poor prognosis as majority advanced HIV low CD4 counts. It has postulated by some authors and researches that it should be recognized an AIDS defining condition.

Geographically, prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Nigerian States can be classified into high, medium and low with Adamawa State falling the category (between 1% – 1.9%). Despite several measures interventions put place to mitigate burden state, its has fluctuated certain age groups carrying a far greater than rest population. This paper examines association between some key factors HIV/AIDs State, Nig...

BACKGROUND Despite global effort to scale up access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), many people in need of HIV/AIDS care in Uganda have not been reached. HIV testing and ART are not widely offered as routine medical services and data on HIV/AIDS in emergency settings in Sub-Saharan Africa is limited. We determined the HIV prevalence and eligibility for ART in a medical emergency unit at Mulago...

Background and Objectives: Human T-cell lymphotropic viruses (HTLV) type 1 and 2 are retroviruses that share the same routes of transmission as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). As a consequence of epidemiologic similarities, HIV and HTLV-1/2 co-infection is frequent. Due to the limited data, this study assessed the seroprevalence of HTLV-1/2 infections in HIV infected patients in Tehran, Ira...

This study explored the knowledge and attitudes of Jordanian nurses toward patients with HIV/AIDS, particularly in regards to their sources of information and education. This survey utilized a cross-sectional design. A self-administered questionnaire developed by Eckstein was used in collecting the data. A total of 922 nurses completed the questionnaire. Overall, Jordanian nurses expressed nega...

background vertically oriented global health initiatives (ghis) addressing the hiv/aids epidemic, including the president’s emergency plan for aids relief (pepfar), have successfully contributed to reducing hiv/aids related morbidity and mortality. however, there is still debate about whether these disease-specific programs have improved or harmed health systems overall, especially with respect...

Background: Despite the availability of HIV/AIDS voluntary counselling and testing services in Omdurman Teaching Hospital, level uptake remains low, prevalence Sudan is still high. This situation suggests that there may be some underlying factors, such as patients’ attitudes toward provided, are affecting their willingness to access them. Therefore, this study aimed assess attitude patients att...