Introduction. Whitout debt, after second world war, The AIDS has been the most important disaster for humanity.As our population is young and increasing in knowledge has essential role in prevention of the disease and the young people are the main victims of it, so it is necessary to determine students knowledge and attitude as a symbole of young population to understand their abbility in campa...

Background & aim: Knowledge and attitude of the nurses and midwives towards HIV/AIDS patients could affect the quality of care provision. Thus, this study aimed to determine the relationship between knowledge, attitude, and tendency of nurses and midwives towards caring for HIV/AIDS patients. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 303 nurses and midwives at healthcare centers, af...

background and purpose: scorpion sting is one of the major health problems of undeveloped countries, which causes severe complications and sometimes death.this study aimed toassessment knowledge of scorpion sting patients who admitted to ahvaz razi hospital about pre-hospital care. materials and methods: this is a descriptive study, which its participants were sampled by a pilot method, and the...

n engl j med 355;22 www.nejm.org november 30, 2006 2273 were,” she said, “How separate we were from everyone who wasn’t part of the thing. There were the involved and uninvolved, and they just didn’t understand one another.” In July, a tape recording of these recollections, made a year before Wofsy’s death, was heard by 17 doctors who had come together in New York to commemorate the 25th annive...

Background: AIDS is an emerging disease, and despite the fact that it has not been recognized for the first half-century since its inception, it has been known as a century-old disaster. This disease, by proliferation in immune cells and ultimately by weakening the immune system, makes people vulnerable to diseases. Our study seeks to examine existing cases of HIV/AIDS patients in East Azerbaij...

OBJECTIVE To delineate changes in the epidemiology of HIV including morbidity and mortality patterns based on three key time points in Jamaica's HIV response. METHOD Surveillance data from Jamaica's HIV/AIDS Tracking system (HATS) were analysed and distribution of cases by age, gender sexual practice, risk factors and clinical features were determined for three time periods (1988-1994: formal...