HIV/AIDS epidemic was widespread.1 Some believed all Asians to have a natural resistance to HIV infection.1 Others referred to traditional Asian morality: ‘Our younger generation still practice virginity until their nuptial day. The religious customs ... are protection against many social evils. It will be difficult even for HIV to penetrate this shield’, Dr K Abhyambika, AIDS Programme Officer...

In his editorial, Stimson argues that the prevention efforts undertaken in the United Kingdom were effective in averting an epidemic of HIV infection among injecting drug users in that country. Having made similar arguments for a prevented epidemicso among injecting drug users in ® ve speci® c cities, I tend to ® nd Stimson’ s arguments convincing. Of course, demonstrating causation is particul...

We found a high seroprevalence of HIV among young women in a commercial logging area in Cameroon. The vulnerability of these young women could be related to commercial logging and the social and economic networks it induces. The environmental changes related to this industry in Equatorial Africa may facilitate HIV dissemination.

BACKGROUND Dengue and malaria are infections, of great public health concern, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where the burden of HIV infection is high. This study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of dengue virus IgG antibodies and dengue/malaria coinfection among febrile HIV-infected patients attending the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Abuja. METHODS In thi...

The seroprevalence of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) among a group of Zambian women of reproductive age and among mother-child pairs in which either one of them has Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) was determined. A cross-sectional group of 378 pregnant women was randomly recruited into the study, and 183 (48.4%) had HHV-8 antibodies. Among the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1-infected women, 51.1% were ...

Ethiopia is one of the countries in which sexually transmitted infections are highly prevalent. However, the data needed to present a realistic picture of the infections are lacking. This study was therefore designed to determine the seroprevalence of syphilis and HIV-1 among pregnant women at the University of Gondar Teaching Hospital. A prospective cross-sectional hospital-based study was con...

Objective: There is evidence that patients with mental illness have increased prevalence of sexually transmitted infections, but data in Brazil are scarce. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of HIV, hepatitis C and B, and syphilis among patients with mental illness in Brazil. Method: A multicenter representative sample of adults with mental illness was randomly selected...

A retrospective research work was carried out to investigate the prevalence ofHIV/AIDS amongst pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in University of BeninTeaching Hospital (UBTH) between January 2006 June 2009.In month June,100 patients were screened using determine kit (preliminary test) and Stat Pak Kit(confirmatory detect presence antibodies HIV-1 HIV-2 antigens,out which total number 4...

BACKGROUND HSV2 has an important role in acquiring and transmitting HIV through genital ulcers. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of this virus in HIV infected subject in Kermanshah, Iran. METHODS This descriptive study was performed among 170 HIV positive patients (case group) and 165 non-HIV cases (control group)) referred to Behavioral Counseling Center of Kermanshah, we...

This work presents the results of the behavioural and serologic survey on HIV/AIDS conducted from December 2007 to December 2008 among the group of STD (sexually transmitted disease) patients, supposed to be at HIV infection risk. In Mauritania, the last survey of HIV seroprevalence among the STD patients goes up to the year 1995 (the prevalence was estimated then to be 0.9%). The goal was to d...