background: cryptosporidium and isospora are known as one of the main cause of diarrhea in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised subjects, all over the world. incidence of enteropathogens such as cryptosporidium spp. and isospora belli considerably has increased, since immunodeficiency virus (hiv) rapidly disseminated. in addition, cancer patients are highly susceptible to opportunistic in...

Although HIV prevalence in Uganda is much lower than it once was, AIDS is still claiming many lives each year with clear signs of escalating rural epidemics. The objective of this study was to appraise the socio-economic and demographic dynamics of HIV/AIDS epidemic in South-Western Uganda. Data were collected with standard closed ended semi-structured questionnaires self-administered to consen...

background and objective: candidiasis is a common opportunistic infection in hiv-infected patients. the spectrum of candida infection is diverse, starting from asymptomatic colonization to pathogenicforms. the low absolute cd4+ t-lymphocyte count has traditionally been cited as the greatest risk factor for the development of oropharyngeal candidiasis and current guidelines suggest increased ris...

Many studies have documented nurses' attitudes and concerns regarding AIDS/HIV, but little is known about Taiwanese nurses. We documented attitudes, concerns, gloving practices and practical AIDS/HIV knowledge of 1090 nurses from one metropolitan hospital in Changhua City, Taiwan. The response rate was 80.9%. Both HIV and hepatitis contraction in the workplace was nurses' main concern. Two hund...

CONTEXT Studies on knowledge and risk behaviors related to HIV/AIDS reported from developed countries have shown that people with psychiatric disorders constitute a special risk group. In Nigeria, although similar studies have been conducted on various population groups, there has, so far, been no reported study on people suffering from psychiatric disorders. OBJECTIVE The present study set o...

OBJECTIVE To raise awareness of the existence of cryptococcal infections in HIV/AIDS patients in Ghana. METHOD Detailed postmortem gross and histopathological analysis of an HIV/AIDS patient suspected to have cryptococcal meningitis was carried out and histopathological findings correlated with clinical findings. RESULTS showed disseminated Cryptococcosis in an HIV/AIDS patient which was co...

ABSTRACT Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) / AIDS infection was increased every year. One of the causes new sufferers is risky sexual behavior people with HIV AIDS. The purposed this study to analyze Determinant risk prevention transmission in Arifin Achmad Public Hospital.The research method used cross-sectional describe determinant sample 83 respondents. conducted from Jun 2, 2021 July Hospi...

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hiv/aids epidemic is concentrated among injecting drug users in iran. like many other countries with hiv/aids concentrated epidemic, prisons are high risk areas for spreading hiv/aids. the aim of this paper was to study the trend of hiv/aids prevalence and related interventions administered in prisons of iran during a 13 years period.this cross sectional study was conducted using the data colle...