HIV-related stigma, discrimination, and homophobia impede community-based efforts to combat HIV disease among Latino and African American gay and bisexual men. This commentary highlights ways to address these social biases in communities of color in Los Angeles, California, from the perspectives of staff from HIV prevention programs. Information was collected from HIV prevention program staff p...

unmet needs show the gap between ideals and reproductive behavior of women. this article aims to evaluate and examine the determinants of the need among married kurdish women of 15-49 in mahabad. this research was conducted through the data of fertility survey in march 2012, in mahabad with a sample size of 700 families. according to the results the rates of unmet needs for birth intervals and ...

substance use is one of the important health problems in the world. the present study aimed to test the structural relations of religious involvement, negative beliefs about substance, spiritual well-being and smoking in a sample of university students. five hundred and four male and female students of kharazmi university, faculty of agriculture of tehran university and islamic azad university ...

Organizations working for the elimination of Chlamydia-triggered blindness (trachoma) follow the WHO SAFE strategy (surgery for trichiasis, antibiotics, face washing and environmental changes) with the aim to achieve a minimum of 80% of children with clean faces in endemic communities, mass treatment covering the whole district with trachoma rates of 10% or more and surveillance plans. Trachoma...