Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has greatly improved life expectancy and quality of among people living with HIV. However, hypertension been reported to increase HIV patients. Yet the exact cause not established. We conducted a cross-sectional study involving female HIV-infected patients on ART who attended care treatment clinics (CTCs) between August 2020 December 2020. The partic...

The United Nations is committed to achieving universal access to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care, treatment, and prevention. Although the gateway to HIV care and secondary prevention is knowledge of serostatus, use of voluntary counseling and testing in resource-limited settings with the highest burden of HIV infection and AIDS has been limited. On the basis of evidence of increased pat...

Nathan Ford, Edward J. Mills, and Matthias Egger Department of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Global Evaluative Sciences, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; School of Public Health, University of Rwanda, Kigali; and IeDEA Data Centers, Institute of Social and Preventive M...

The article comments the pioneer and recent publication of the World Health Organization called "Guidance for National Tuberculosis Programmes on the Management of Childhood Tuberculosis in Children", aiming at spreading interesting aspects on the practice of health professionals. A parallel between Latin America and the African continent is established, concerning the co-infection TB-HIV and c...

External Quality Assessment (EQA) surveys performed by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) revealed the need for the strengthening of public health microbiology laboratories, particularly for testing of epidemic-prone diseases in the African Region. These surveys revealed common issues such as supply chain management, skilled personnel, logistical support and ove...

A progressive erosion of the democratic space appears as one of the emerging challenges in global health today. Such delimitation of the political interplay has a particularly evident impact on the unique public interest function of the World Health Organization (WHO). This paper aims to identify some obstacles for a truly democratic functioning of the UN specialized agency for health. The deve...

The definition of quality of life is complex and often depends on the investigator or organization (Dijkers 1999). The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical/mental, social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (World Health Organization 1947). Conceptually, quality of life can be divided into health-related (with physical, psychologic...

The HIV–AIDS epidemic is one of the most challenging and signifi cant health crises facing the world today. In order to cope with its complexities, the United Nations and World Health Organization have increasingly relied upon the resources offered by networks of HIV–AIDS nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The research reported here uses evolutionary theory to predict the patterns of allianc...

BACKGROUND Education, regulation and association (ERA) are the supporting pillars of an enabling environment for midwives to provide quality care. This study explores these three pillars in the 73 low- and middle-income countries who participated in the State of the World's Midwifery (SoWMy) 2014 report. It also examines the progress made since the previous report in 2011. METHODS A self-comp...

The generation growing and diversified of Municipal Solid Waste is configured as an environmental problem, economic and social deterioration, especially, by application of inappropriate management of them. Faced with this urban context, the research in development presents as specific objective assessment of the quality of life of the gatherers of recyclable materials were active in the city of...